We are live creatures: Embodiment, American Pragmatism and the cognitive organism

Body, Language and Mind: Embodiment

Volumn 1, Issue , 2008, Pages 17-54

  Johnson, Mark ^a   Rohrer, Tim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive linguistics; Cognitive science; Embodiment; Image schema; Metaphor; Neurobiology; Pragmatism; Representationalism; Semantics

Indexed keywords

EID: 85064425267     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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