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1 online resource (xiv, 350 pages) |
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The embodiment perspective -- Homeostasis: perception, feelings, and signaling -- How language and conversation evolved -- Thinking: using and understanding language -- Emotion -- Signals -- Context -- Relationships and groups -- Conversation -- Play -- Metaphor -- Humor and irony -- Stories -- Media technology, social reality, and discourse -- Recap: Homeostasis and communication |
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- The Purpose of the Book -- 1 The Embodiment Perspective -- The Embodiment Perspective -- Communication Is Biological. -- Metaphors of Communication. -- Communication Is Cognitive. -- Communication Is Social. -- Communication Is Cultural. -- Concepts and Metaphorical Terms -- Homeostasis, Representation, and Communication -- Summary -- 2 Homeostasis: Perception, Feelings, and Signaling -- Embodied Cognition -- Evolutionary Perspective. -- Homeostasis |
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The Brain and Central Nervous System -- Neural Function. -- The Computer Metaphor for Mind. -- Structure of the Brain -- Physiology of Communication. -- Perception. -- Experience. -- Memory. -- Hemispheric Specialization. -- Survival Circuits. -- Coordinating Representations and Actions. -- Physiological Adaptations for Communication -- Reward Systems: Why Solving Puzzles, Eating, and Sex Are Fun -- Summary -- 3 How Language and Conversation Evolved -- What Is Language? -- Language Evolution as a Response to Ecological Pressure -- Animal Communication -- Language as a Social Tool -- Play |
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Theory of Mind (ToM) and Signaling. -- Social Knowledge. -- The Gradual Development of Language -- Elaborating the Signal System. -- Expanding Vocabulary. -- Totemic Imitation. -- Elaborating Syntax. -- Metaphor. -- Abstraction and Ambiguity. -- Language for Coordinating Action. -- Implications for Our Understanding of Contemporary Language -- Memes: Units of Cultural Practice -- The Meme Theory Account of Culture and Brain Evolution. -- Language and Homeostasis -- Summary -- 4 Thinking: Using and Understanding Language -- Mind -- Identity and the Self. -- Consciousness |
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What Does Consciousness Do? -- Metacognition. -- Memory. -- Perception, Understanding, and Language -- The Conventional Story: The Digital Mind. -- Perceptual Symbols. -- Evidence for Perceptual Simulations -- Simulating Visual Experience. -- Simulating Muscular Experience. -- Objections to the PSS (Perceptual Symbols Systems) Account. -- Metaphor. -- Schemas, Scripts, and Scenarios. -- Frames. -- Emotion. -- Natural Language Statistics (Semantic Connections). -- Synthesis: Context-Limited Simulation Theory Extended -- Summary -- 5 Emotion -- The Classic View: Basic Emotions |
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The Expanding List of Emotion Categories. -- Methodological Issues. -- Survival Circuits -- Cultural Construction of Emotion -- Self-Attribution. -- Excitation Transfer. -- The Facial Feedback Effect. -- Emotion and Homeostasis -- Strategic Emotional Expression. -- The Enactive View -- Synthesis: Affect, Arousal, and Emotion -- Emotion and Reason -- Communicating Emotion -- Emotion Cues and Signals. -- Feelings. -- Emotion Categories and Terms. -- Communicating about Emotions -- Summary -- 6 Signals -- Signaling -- Intentionality. -- Signals. -- Language -- Word Meaning |
| Summary |
The way the brain, body, and mind interact with social structure to shape communication has so far not received the attention it deserves. This book addresses this gap by providing a novel account of communication as a social, biological and neurological force. Combining theories from communication studies and psycholinguistics, and drawing on biological and evolutionary perspectives, it shows how communication is inherently both biological and social, and that language and the neural systems that support it have evolved in response to a complex social environment. It introduces a clear set of terms based on current research, and illustrates key concepts using real-life examples from everyday conversation - speaking to a number of current debates around the evolutionary and biological basis of language, and the relationship between language, cognition, and environment. Thought provoking and engaging, it will change the way we think about the relationship between communication and cognition |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 16, 2022) |
| Subject |
Communication -- Physiological aspects
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Brain.
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Psycholinguistics.
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Sociolinguistics.
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Mind and body.
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Neurology.
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Cognition.
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brains.
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psycholinguistics.
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sociolinguistics.
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cognition.
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Brain
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Cognition
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Communication -- Physiological aspects
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Mind and body
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Neurology
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Psycholinguistics
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Sociolinguistics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781108979566 |
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1108979564 |
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1108983936 |
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9781108983938 |
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