?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Reenactment%3A+An+embodied+cognition+approach+to+meaning+and+linguistic+content&rft.creator=Sandler%2C+Dr.+Sergeiy&rft.subject=Pragmatics&rft.subject=Semantics&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Language&rft.description=A+central+finding+in+experimental+research+identified+with+Embodied+Cognition+(EC)+is+that+understanding+actions+involves+their+embodied+simulation%2C+i.e.+executing+some+processes+involved+in+performing+these+actions.+Extending+these+findings%2C+I+argue+that+reenactment+%E2%80%93+the+overt+embodied+simulation+of+actions+and+practices%2C+including+especially+communicative+actions+and+practices%2C+within+utterances+%E2%80%93+makes+it+possible+to+forge+an+integrated+EC-based+account+of+linguistic+meaning.+In+particular%2C+I+argue%3A+(a)+that+remote+entities+can+be+referred+to+by+reenacting+actions+performed+with+them%3B+(b)+that+the+use+of+grammatical+constructions+can+be+conceived+of+as+the+reenactment+of+linguistic+action+routines%3B+(c)+that+complex+enunciational+structures+(reported+speech%2C+irony%2C+etc.)+involve+a+separate+level+of+reenactment%2C+on+which+characters+are+presented+as+interacting+with+one+another+within+the+utterance%3B+(d)+that+the+segmentation+of+long+utterances+into+shorter+units+involves+the+reenactment+of+brief+audience+interventions+between+units%3B+and+(e)+that+the+overall+meaning+of+an+utterance+can+be+stated+in+reenactment+terms.+The+notion+of+reenactment+provides+a+conceptual+framework+for+accounting+for+aspects+of+language+that+are+usually+thought+to+be+outside+the+reach+of+EC+in+an+EC+framework%2C+thus+supporting+a+view+of+meaning+and+linguistic+content+as+thoroughly+grounded+in+action+and+interaction.&rft.date=2011-03-15&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F7626%2F2%2FReenactment%2520EC%2520for%2520archiving.pdf&rft.identifier=++Sandler%2C+Dr.+Sergeiy++(2011)+Reenactment%3A+An+embodied+cognition+approach+to+meaning+and+linguistic+content.++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D++++(In+Press)++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F7626%2F