In:Sensory Experiences: Exploring meaning and the senses
Danièle Dubois, Caroline Cance, Matt Coler, Arthur Paté and Catherine Guastavino
[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research 24] 2021
► pp. 333–368
Chapter 9From perception to sensory experiences
A paradigm shift
Published online: 1 December 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/celcr.24.c9
https://doi.org/10.1075/celcr.24.c9
Article outline
- 9.1Sensory experience: Main concepts at work
- 9.1.1Sensory experience as psychological invariants in memory
- 9.1.2Reconsidering the five senses: Holisensoriality
- 9.1.3Umwelt and meaning
- 9.2Sensory categories as “acts of meaning”
- 9.2.1From “natural categories” to categories as “acts of meaning”
- 9.2.2“Ad hoc” categories, embodied and situated cognition
- 9.2.2.1From “natural” to “ad hoc” categories (Barsalou)
- 9.2.2.2From Rosch to Varela: From embodiment to phenomenology
- 9.2.2.3Hutchins’s distributed cognition in the “wild”
- 9.3Senses, sensors, and material culture
- 9.4Sense(s) and symbolic systems
- 9.4.1Language(s) matter(s): Signifier and signified
- 9.4.2From words to meaning constitution in discourse
- 9.5Sense(s) and knowledges
- 9.5.1Knowledge vs. knowledges
- 9.5.2Beyond dualisms: Unification of knowledges and meaning constitution
- 9.5.3From multidisciplinarity to interdisciplinarity
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