%0 Journal Article
%T Metaphor and embodied cognition
%A Gibbs Jr
%A Raymond W.
%A Macedo
%A Ana Cristina Pelosi Silva de
%J DELTA: Documenta£¿£¿o de Estudos em Ling¨¹¨ªstica Te¨®rica e Aplicada
%D 2010
%I Pontif¨ªcia Universidade Cat¨®lica de S?o Paulo - PUC-SP
%R 10.1590/S0102-44502010000300014
%X 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 research in cognitive science: perception, concepts, mental imagery, memory, and language processing (gibbs 2006a) we also describe some psycholinguistic studies on embodied metaphor understanding, and offer some details on one series of experiments in regard to people's embodied understanding of the difficulties are weights primary metaphor. our conclusion draws connections between the research on embodied cognition and contemporary linguistic and psychological work on embodied metaphor.
%K cognitive science
%K embodied human cognition
%K primary metaphors
%K embodied metaphors.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0102-44502010000300014&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en