Intersubjectivity at close quarters: How dancers of tango argentino use imagery for interaction and improvisation

Cognitive Semiotics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 76-124

  Kimmel, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Affordances; Co regulation; Cognitive ethnography; Embodied apprenticeship; Image schemas; Improvisation; Metaphor; Micro phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 85120945464     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22352066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cogsem.2009.4.1.76     Document Type: Article

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