Metaphor and embodied cognition Metáfora e cognição corpórea

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 resear...

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Main Authors: Raymond W. Gibbs Jr, Ana Cristina Pelosi Silva de Macedo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo 2010-01-01
Series:DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-44502010000300014