Ostension : Word Learning and the Embodied Mind /
"Ostension is bodily movement that manifests our engagement with things, whether we wish it to or not. Gestures, glances, facial expressions: all betray our interest in something. Ostension enables our first word learning, providing infants with a prelinguistic way to grasp the meaning of words...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The MIT Press,
[2014]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : minding ostension
- The philosophy of action, perception, and play
- The science of prelinguistic joint attention
- Wittgenstein : ostension makes language public
- Merleau-Ponty : gestural meaning and the living body
- Augustine : word learning by understanding the movements of life
- Aristotle : natural movement and the problem of shared understanding
- Phenomenology : discovering ostension
- Mind: the logic of ostension
- Epistemology : disambiguating ostension
- Metaphysics : movement, manifestation, and language
- Conclusion : the origin of the human conversation.