Embodiment, language, and mimesis

Body, Language and Mind: Embodiment

Volumn 1, Issue , 2008, Pages 297-338

  Zlatev, Jordan ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bodily mimesis; Consciousness; Conventions; Mimetic schemas; Representation

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