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| Other authors / contributors: | Cowley, Stephen J. (Stephen John), 1955-
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| ISBN: | 9789027284150
9027284156
1283314738
9781283314732
9789027202536
9027202532
9786613314734
6613314730
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
English.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | The volume presents language as fully integrated with human existence. On this view, language is not essentially 'symbolic', not represented inside minds or brains, and most certainly not determined by micro-social rules and norms. Rather, language is part of our ecology. It emerges when bodies co-ordinate vocal and visible gesture to integrate events with different histories. Enacting feeling, expression and wordings, language permeates the collective, individual and affective life of living beings. It is a profoundly distributed, multi-centric activity that binds people together as they go ...
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| Other form: | Print version: Distributed language. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2011 9789027202536
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