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Ostension: Word Learning and the Embodied Mind (The MIT Press) by Engelland, Chad is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Ostension: Word Learning and the Embodied Mind (The MIT Press) about?
An examination of the role of ostension—the bodily manifestation of intention—-in word learning, and an investigation of the philosophical puzzles it poses.Ostension is bodily movement that manifests our engagement with things, whether we wish it to or not. Gestures, glances, facial expressions: all betray our interest in something. Ostension enables our first word learning, providing infants with a prelinguistic way to grasp the meaning of words. Ostension is philosophically puzzling; it cuts across domains seemingly unbridgeable—public–private, inner–outer, mind–body. In this book, Chad Engelland offers a philosophical investigation of ostension and its role in word learning by infants.Engelland discusses ostension (distinguishing it from ostensive definition) in contemporary philosophy, examining accounts by Quine, Davidson, and Gadamer, and he explores relevant empirical findings in psychology, evolutionary anthropology, and neuroscience. He offers original studies of four representative historical thinkers whose work enriches the understanding of ostension: Wittgenstein, Merleau-Ponty, Augustine, and Aristotle. And, building on these philosophical and empirical foundations, En
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- Author
- Engelland, Chad
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780262320627
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- History, Linguistics, Philosophy
- Rating
- 4.7 / 5 (5 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14