Language and the Mind

Embodied Language: Mind in Body—Body in Mind (1x19)

Air date: Mar 01, 2020

Witness how the arbitrary and abstract elements of language interact with the iconic and concrete expressions of the body. Remembering that language originally evolved within a face-to-face context, the revelation of recent studies is not surprising: The body influences all parts of language and we use the whole body to take meaning from what we hear.