How Language Makes Meaning: Embodiment and Conjoined Antonymy

by Herbert L Colston

Language's key function is to enable human social interaction, for which people are motivated to engage by powerful brain mechanisms. This book integrates recent work on embodied simulations, traditional meaning-making processes and a myriad of semantic and other meaning contributors to formulate a new model of how language functions following a pattern of conjoined antonymy. It investigates how embodied simulations, semantic information, deviation,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108421652
• ISBN13: 9781108421652
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.6" x 9.4"