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From: Paul Peranteau [paul at benjamins.com]
Subject: Distributed Language: Cowley

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Title: Distributed Language 
Series Title: Benjamins Current Topics 34  

Publication Year: 2011 
Publisher: John Benjamins
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Book URL: http://benjamins.com/catalog/bct.34 

Editor: Stephen J. Cowley

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027284150 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 85.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027284150 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 128.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027202536 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 85.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027202536 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 128.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027202536 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 90.10

Abstract:

The volume presents language as fully integrated with human existence. On 
this view, language is not essentially 'symbolic', not represented inside minds 
or brains, and most certainly not determined by micro-social rules and norms. 
Rather, language is part of our ecology. It emerges when bodies co-ordinate 
vocal and visible gesture to integrate events with different histories. Enacting 
feeling, expression and wordings, language permeates the collective, 
individual and affective life of living beings. It is a profoundly distributed, 
multi-centric activity that binds people together as they go about their lives. 
Distributed language pursues this perspective both theoretically and in 
relation to empirical work. Empirically, it reports studies on the anticipatory 
dynamics of reading, its socio-cognitive consequences, Shakespearean 
theatre, what images evoke (in brain and word), and solving insight problems. 
Theoretically, the volume challenges linguistic autonomy from overlapping 
theoretical positions. First, it is argued that language exploits a species 
specific form of semiotic cognition. Second, it is suggested that the central 
function of language lies in realizing values that derive from our ecosystemic 
existence. Third, this is ascribed to how cultural and biological symbols co-
regulate the dynamics that shape human activity. Fourth, it is argued that 
language, far from being organism-centred, gives us an extended ecology in 
which our co-ordination is saturated by values and norms that are derived 
from our sociocultural environment. The contributions to this volume were 
originally published in "Pragmatics & Cognition" 17:3 (2009). 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     History of Linguistics
                     Pragmatics
                     Psycholinguistics
                     Semiotics

Written In: English  (eng)

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