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(0)Edda Weigand
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Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
The 'Mixed Game Model' represents a holistic theory of dialogue which starts from human beings' competence-in-performance and describes how language is integrated in a general theory of human action and behaviour. Human beings are able to adapt to changing conditions and to pursue their interests by the integrated use of various communicative means, mainly verbal, perceptual and cognitive. The core unit is the dialogic action game or 'the mixed game'...
2) Moving Ourselves, Moving Others: Motion and emotion in intersubjectivity, consciousness and language
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
The close relationship between motion (bodily movement) and emotion (feelings) is not an etymological coincidence. While moving ourselves, we move others; in observing others move - we are moved ourselves. The fundamentally interpersonal nature of mind and language has recently received due attention, but the key role of (e)motion in this context has remained something of a blind spot. The present book rectifies this gap by gathering contributions...