Where's the action? The pragmatic turn in cognitive science

Engel, Andreas K.; Maÿe, Alexander; Kurthen, Martin; König, Peter

doi:10.1016/j.tics.2013.03.006

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“…At a more general level, widening the lens on our object of study to include multimodal communication brings a level of ecological validity to the scientific investigation of language that is much needed and currently argued for by scholars from different fields [61,62].…”

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Language as a multimodal phenomenon: implications for language learning, processing and evolution

Vigliocco¹,

Perniss

Vinson³

2014

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Our understanding of the cognitive and neural underpinnings of language has traditionally been firmly based on spoken Indo-European languages and on language studied as speech or text. However, in face-to-face communication, language is multimodal: speech signals are invariably accompanied by visual information on the face and in manual gestures, and sign languages deploy multiple channels (hands, face and body) in utterance construction. Moreover, the narrow focus on spoken Indo-European languages has entrenched the assumption that language is comprised wholly by an arbitrary system of symbols and rules. However, iconicity (i.e. resemblance between aspects of communicative form and meaning) is also present: speakers use iconic ges- tures when they speak; many non-Indo-European spoken languages exhibit a substantial amount of iconicity in word forms and, finally, iconicity is the norm, rather than the exception in sign languages. This introduction provides the motivation for taking a multimodal approach to the study of language learning, processing and evolution, and discusses the broad implications of shifting our current dominant approaches and assumptions to encompass multimodal expression in both signed and spoken languages

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Language as a multimodal phenomenon: implications for language learning, processing and evolution

Vigliocco¹,

Perniss

Vinson³

2014

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

213

131

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“…And yet, recent emphasis on the sensorimotor nature of the enactive mind has left autonomy out of focus, centring the debate around a definitive victory over the notion of representation (Hutto 2005;Hutto and Myin 2012;Menary 2006), the clarification of the sensorimotor constitution of experience and the nature of skills and knowledge of sensorimotor contingencies (Noë 2004;O'Regan and Noë 2001) or, more broadly, the conception of cognition as ''subserving action and being grounded in sensorimotor coupling'' (Engel 2010;Engel et al 2013) assuming that ''ultimately, there is no prospect of understanding minds without reference to interaction between organisms and their environments'' (Hutto and Myin 2012, p. 4). These approaches conceive of themselves as enactivists, explicitly following TEM's call to study cognition in terms of embodied action, and reclaiming the canonical definition of enactivism:…”

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“…processing'') in the formation of such patterns is nowadays being increasingly acknowledged (Engel et al 2013). 17 The degree to which these large-scale distributed neurodynamic patterns interrelate so as to determine collective or global-organizational viability conditions (i.e.…”

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Autonomy and Enactivism: Towards a Theory of Sensorimotor Autonomous Agency

Barandiaran

2016

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“…Varela, Thompson and Rosch (1991) pioneered the view of embodiment in relation to mind whereby cognition rather than being conceived of as a detached re-construction of the world is seen as a suite of dynamic processes enabling embodied activity (Engel et al, 2013). Action is what enables perception and cognition rather than being in secondary role to them.…”

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The Psycho-neurology of Embodiment with Examples from Authentic Movement and Laban Movement Analysis

Payne

2017

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It is proposed herewith that the integration of thought and emotion is felt through the body. It has been agreed that thought is embodied cognition and that our earliest learning is implicit, through the body, and non-verbal. Embodiment and Embodied Simulation (ES) (Gallese, 2011) represent controversial topics in the philosophy of mind (Clark, 1998) and cognitive neuroscience (Gallagher, 2015a(Gallagher, , 2015bGallese and Sinigaglia, 2011a; Gallese, 2014). As a result of the advances in these areas of research there is a need to re-conceptualize our understanding of the mechanisms/processes involved in DMP. Could ES be applied to the psychology of movement? This article attempts to apply this theory of embodiment to the practice of Authentic Movement (AM) and Laban Movement Analysis (LMA). The theory of ES is proposed as one possible explanation of how the role of the 'witness' in AM comes to know their inner experience whilst in the presence of a mover which may lead to an 'offering' to that mover from the witness' conscious body (Adler, 2002). Furthermore, there is an examination of how ES connects to the task of movement observation and how meaning is arrived at from the various movement patterns observed.

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Where's the action? The pragmatic turn in cognitive science

Cited by 366 publications

References 73 publications

Language as a multimodal phenomenon: implications for language learning, processing and evolution

Language as a multimodal phenomenon: implications for language learning, processing and evolution

Autonomy and Enactivism: Towards a Theory of Sensorimotor Autonomous Agency

The Psycho-neurology of Embodiment with Examples from Authentic Movement and Laban Movement Analysis

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