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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    20 July 2023
    10 August 2023
    ISBN:
    9781108913294
    9781108842907
    9781009663960
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108913294
    Dimensions:
    (229 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.59kg, 312 Pages
    Dimensions:
    (229 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.454kg, 312 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics, Psychology, Cognition, Language and Linguistics
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    The Freedom of Words is for anyone interested in understanding the role of body and language in cognition and how humans developed the sophisticated ability to use abstract concepts like 'freedom' and 'thinking'. This volume adopts a transdisciplinary perspective, including philosophy, semiotics, psychology, and neuroscience, to show how language, as a tool, shapes our minds and influences our interaction with the physical and social environment. It develops a theory showing how abstract concepts in their different varieties enhance cognition and profoundly influence our social and affective life. It addresses how children learn such abstract concepts, details how they vary across languages and cultures, and outlines the link between abstractness and the capability to detect inner bodily signals. Overall, the book shows how words – abstract words in particular, because of their indeterminate and open character – grant us freedom.

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