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Effects of sociocultural embodiment on use of RUN
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Peverada, Christopher
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Year and Degree
2011, Master of Arts, Case Western Reserve University, Cognitive Linguistics.
Abstract
Embodiment, or the way that the world and human interactions with it help to shape cognition and language, is a central topic in cognitive linguistics. Rohrer (2006) writes of three dogmas of embodiment. One of these dogmas is viewing “embodiment as an eliminative reductionism”. Specifically, Rohrer cautions against reducing the study of embodiment and cognitive linguistics to solely the biophysical world, at the expense of the sociocultural world. Rohrer also suggests using converging evidence from cross-disciplinary methodologies to help resolve the dogmas. This thesis takes the concept RUN and situates it both in a sociocultural context and a neurophysiological context. By building idealized cognitive models from language data from Tarahumara, Basque, and English as well as considering the sociocultural world of a language community, RUN is compared across environments and used to determine cultural effects on concepts that from afar seem purely physical in nature.
Committee
Todd Oakley (Committee Chair)
Mark Turner (Committee Member)
Per Aage Brandt (Committee Member)
Pages
47 p.
Subject Headings
Linguistics
Keywords
embodiment
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Tarahumara
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Basque
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English
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linguistics
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cognitive
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Peverada, C. (2011).
Effects of sociocultural embodiment on use of RUN
[Master's thesis, Case Western Reserve University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1301598994
APA Style (7th edition)
Peverada, Christopher.
Effects of sociocultural embodiment on use of RUN.
2011. Case Western Reserve University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1301598994.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Peverada, Christopher. "Effects of sociocultural embodiment on use of RUN." Master's thesis, Case Western Reserve University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1301598994
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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