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Speaking bodies: suggested reading


General

Abrams D 1996 The spell of the sensuous: perception and language in the more-than-human world Parthenon

Chomsky N 1966 Cartesian linguistics: a chapter in the history of rationalist thought Harper and Row

Hearne Vicki 1986 Questions about language I. Horses New Yorker August 18 pp.33-7

Kroeber K 1994 Ecological literary criticism: romantic imagining and the biology of mind Columbia

Ogden C, I Richards 1959 The meaning of meaning Harcourt, Brace and World

Ong W 1982 Orality and literacy Methuen

Richards I 1991 Richards on rhetoric: selected essays 1929-1974, A Berthoff ed Oxford

Turner M 1991 Reading minds: a study of English in the age of cognitive science Princeton

Wittgenstein L 1956 Philosophical investigations Basil Blackwell

Cognitive linguistics

Halliday M 1994 An introduction to functional grammar, 2nd ed E Arnold

Jakobson R 1980 Brain and language: cerebral hemispheres and linguistic structure in mutual light Slavica

Lakoff G 1989 Philosophical speculation and cognitive science, Philosophical Psychology 2(1):55

Lakoff G 1995 Embodied minds and meanings, in Speaking minds: interviews with twenty eminent cognitive scientists, P Baumgartner and S Payr eds, 115-130 Princeton

Lakoff G, M Johnson 1999 Philosophy in the flesh: the embodied mind and its challenge to western thought Basic Books

Landau B, R Jackendoff 1993 "What" and "where" in spatial language and spatial cognition, Behavior and Brain Science 16:217-265

Langacker R 1983 Foundations of cognitive grammar Indiana University Linguistics Club

Rohrer, Tim (2001). Pragmatics, ideology & embodiment: William James and the philosophical foundations of cognitive linguistics. In: RenZ Dirven, Bruce Hawkins and Esra Sandikcioglu (eds.), Language and Ideology. Volume 1: Theoretical Cognitive Approaches, 49-81. John Benjamins: Amsterdm/Philadelphia. http://www.hum.au.dk/semiotics/docs/epub/arc/tr/prag/pragmatism.html [10.14.03]

Rosch E 1978 Principles of categorization, in Cognition and categorization, E Rosch and B Lloyd eds, 27-48 Lawrence Erlbaum

Sweetser E 1990 From etymology to pragmatics: metaphorical and cultural aspects of semantic experience Cambridge

Sweetser E, G Fauconnier eds 1996 Space, worlds and grammar University of Chicago

Talmy L 1983 How language structures space, in Spatial orientation: theory, research, and application, H Pick and L Acredolo eds Plenum Press

Talmy L 1996 Fictive motion in language and 'ception,' in Language and space, P Bloom et al eds MIT/Bradford

Evolution, development and animal language

Barton R 1998 Visual specialization and brain evolution in primates, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 265:1933-1937

Deacon T 1997 The symbolic species: co-evolution of language and the brain Norton

Dent C 1990 An ecological approach to language development, Developmental Psychobiology 23(7):679-703

Neville H 1993 Neurobiology of cognitive and language processing: effects of early experience, in Brain development and cognition: a reader, M Johnson ed, 424-448 Blackwell

Nottebaum F et al 1990 Song learning in birds: the relation between perception and production, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Biological Science 329(1253):115-24

Piattelli-Palmarini M ed 1980 Language and learning: a debate between Jean Piaget and Noam Chomsky Harvard

Premack D 1983 The mind of an ape Norton

Roth, W.-M. (2002). From action to discourse: the bridging function of gestures. Journal of Cognitive Systems Research 3: 535-554.

Savage-Rumbaugh S 1993 Language learnability in man, ape, and dolphin, in Language and communication: comparative perspectives, H Roitblat, L Herman, P Nachtigall eds, 457-473 Lawrence Erlbaum

Thelen E, L Smith 1994 A dynamic systems approach to the development of cogniton and action MIT

Thelen E 1995 Time-scale dynamics and the development of embodied cognition, in Mind as motion, T van Gelder and R Port eds, 69-100 MIT

Neuroscience

Damasio A, D Tranel 1993 Nouns and verbs are retrieved with differently distributed neural systems, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 90:4957-60

Damasio A and H 1994 Cortical systems for the retrieval of concrete knowledge: the convergence zone framework, in Large-scale neuronal systems, C Koch and J Davis eds, 61-70 MIT

Damasio H et al 1996 A neural basis for lexical retrieval, Nature 380:499-505

Grabowski T, A Damasio 2000 Investigating language with functional neuroimaging, in Brain mapping: the systems, A Toga and J Mazziotta eds, 425-461 Academic Press

Kimura D 1993 Neuromotor mechanisms in human communication Oxford

Kosslyn S et al 1992 Categorical versus coordinate spatial representations: computational analysis and computer simulations, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 18:562-77

Martin A, L Ungerleider, J Haxby 2000 Category specificity and the brain: the sensory/motor model of semantic representations of objects, in The new cognitive neurosciences, M Gazzaniga ed, 1023-1036 MIT/Bradford

Mesulam M 1990 Large-scale neurocognitive networks and distributed processing for attention, language and memory, Annals of Neurology 28(5):597-613

Papathanassiou D et al 2000 A common language network for comprehension and production: a contribution to the definition of language epicenters with PET NeuroImage 11:347-357

Ungerleider L et al 1996 Neuronal correlates of category-specific knowledge, Nature 379:649-52

Premotor empathy and language

Rizzolatti G et al 1995 Grasping movements: visuomotor transformations, in Handbook of brain theory and neural networks, M Arbib ed, 438-441 MIT

Rizzolatti G et al 1996a Premotor cortex and the recognition of motor actions, Cognitive Brain Research 3:131-141

Rizzolatti G et al 1996b Localization of grasp representations in humans by PET: 1. Observation versus execution, Experimental Brain Research 111:246-252

ASL and hemispheric lateralization

Bellugi U, H Poizner, E Klima 1993 Language, modality and the brain, in Brain development and cognition: a reader, M Johnson ed, 403-423 Blackwell

Brownell H et al 1990 Appreciation of metaphoric alternative word meanings by left and right brain-damaged patients, Neuropsychologia 28(4):375-383

Corballis M 1991 The lop-sided ape: evolution of the generative mind Oxford University Press

Emmorey K, J Reilly eds 1995 Language, gesture and space Lawrence Erlbaum

Geschwind N, A Galabura 1987 Cerebral lateralization MIT

Geschwind N 1990 Specializations of the human brain, Scientific American June 1990:185-

Leroi-Gourhan A 1964/1993 Gesture and speech MIT

Liddell S 1995 Real, surrogate and token space; grammatical consequences in ASL, in Language, gesture and space, K Emmory and J Reilly eds Lawrence Erlbaum

Poizner L, E Klima, U Bellugi 1987 What the hands reveal about the brain MIT

Joint attention

Moore C, P Dunham eds 1995 Joint attention: its origin and role in development Lawrence Erlbaum

Baron-Cohen S 1995 The eye-direction detector (EDD) and the shared attention mechanism (SAM): two cases for evolutionary psychology, in Joint attention: its origins and role in development, C Moore and P Dunham eds, 41-59 Lawrence Erlbaum

Brunner J 1995 From joint attention to the meeting of minds: an introduction, in Joint attention: its origins and role in development, C Moore and P Dunham eds, 1-28 Lawrence Erlbaum

Butterworth G 1995 Origins of mind in perception and action, in Joint attention: its origins and role in development, C Moore and P Dunham eds, 29-40 Lawrence Erlbaum

Scaife M, J Brunner 1975 The capacity for joint visual attention in the infant, Nature 253:265-266

Metaphor

Arbib M 1995 Schema theory, in Handbook of brain theory and neural networks, ed M Arbib, pp 830-834 MIT

Lakoff G 1987 Women, fire and dangerous things: what categories reveal about the mind University Of Chicago

Lakoff G 1993 The contemporary theory of metaphor, in Metaphor and thought, A Ortony ed, 2d ed, 202-251 Cambridge

Ortony A ed 1993 Metaphor and thought, 2nd ed Cambridge

Ricoeur P 1975 The rule of metaphor University Of Toronto

Richards I 1991 Richards on rhetoric: selected essays 1929-1974, A Berthoff ed Oxford

Deixis

Bloom P et al eds 1996 Language and space MIT/Bradford

Buhler K 1982 The deictic field of language and deictic words, in Studies in deixis and related topics Wiley

Duchan J, G Bruder, L Hewitt eds 1995 Deixis in narrative: a cognitive science perspective Lawrence Erlbaum

Emmory K 1996 The confluence of space and language in signed languages, in Language and space, P Bloom et al eds MIT

Emmory K, D Covina, U Bellugi 1995 Differential processing of topographic and referential functions of space, in Language, gesture and space, K Emmory and J Reilly eds, 43 Lawrence Erlbaum

Emmory K, J Reilly eds 1995 Language, gesture and space Lawrence Erlbaum

Fillmore C 1975 Santa Cruz lectures on deixis 1971 Indiana University Linguistics Club

Landau B, R Jackendoff 1993 "What" and "where" in spatial language and spatial cognition, Behavior and Brain Science 16:217-265

Liddell S 1995 Real, surrogate and token space: grammatical consequences in ASL, in Language, gesture and space, K Emmory and J Reilly eds Lawrence Erlbaum

McNeill D, L Pedelty 1995 Right brain and gesture, in Language, space and gesture, K Emmory and J Reilly eds, 63 Lawrence Erlbaum

Sweeetser E, G Fauconnier eds 1996 Space, worlds and grammar University of Chicago

Talmy L 1978/1988 The relation of grammar to cognition, in Topics in cognitive linguistics, B Rudzka-Ostyn ed, 165-205 J Benjamins

Talmy L 1983 How language structures space, in Spatial orientation: theory, research, and application, H Pick and L Acredolo eds Plenum Press

Talmy L 1988 Force dynamics in language and cognition, Cognitive Science 12:49-100

Talmy L 1996 Fictive motion in language and 'ception,' in Language and space, P Bloom et al eds, 211-276 MIT/Bradford