Touch in language
Caballero Rodríguez, Rosario and Paradis, Carita LU
(2025)
In Review of Cognitive Linguistics
- Abstract
- This study reviews the literature on TOUCH to establish an analytical framework for the study of TOUCH in communication through language. Two questions are at the heart of the study—an ontological and a methodological one: What counts as TOUCH, and how can we investigate the way we talk about TOUCH? Within the broad framework of cognitive semantics, we offer a general approach to TOUCH and identify two main types of Gestalt profiles related to the dynamicity in the Gestalt formation, namely activity and experience, in which case the former is related to external stimulation only, while the latter may be the result of external or internal stimulation.
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- author
- Caballero Rodríguez, Rosario
and Paradis, Carita
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2025
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- epub
- subject
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- Review of Cognitive Linguistics
- publisher
- John Benjamins Publishing Company
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85215844423
- ISSN
- 1877-9751
- DOI
- 10.1075/rcl.00211.cab
- language
- English
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- yes
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