COULD SIGN-BASED SEMANTICS AND EMBODIED SEMANTICS BENEFIT ONE ANOTHER?
Manuscrito March 22, 2022 Cesar Fernando Meurer 1 citation
Embodied semantics, which grounds meaning in bodily simulation, and Duffley's sign-based semantics can complement each other as foundational and semantic theories respectively. The argument examines three areas—analysis of FOR, verbs of positive and negative recall, and causative verbs—where Duffley's approach gains support from embodied simulation. Conversely, Duffley's theory may help address two challenges facing embodied semantics: accounting for abstract language and sentence-level simulations. The paper proposes a mutually beneficial relationship between these two theoretical frameworks.