DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada

Metaphor and embodied cognition Metáfora e cognição corpórea

DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada September 4, 2013 Raymond W. Gibbs, Ana Cristina Pelosi Silva de Macedo

The present paper briefly describes recent advances in cognitive science on the embodied nature of human cognition with the aim to better situating contemporary work on embodied metaphor in language and thought. We do this by talking about key experimental findings in five areas main areas of research in cognitive science: perception, concepts, mental imagery, memory, and language processing...