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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Engelland, Chad (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • 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.