How Language Makes Meaning: Embodiment and Conjoined Antonymy
- ISBN-10
- 1108421652
- ISBN-13
- 9781108421652
- Category
- Language Arts & Disciplines
- Pages
- 300
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019-11-07
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Author
- Herbert L. Colston
Description
Explains the complexities of how language supports human social interaction using the framework of embodied cognition.
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