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Index
Title Page
Dedication
Foreword
CHAPTER 1 - The Polar Bear’s Nose
The Meaning Makers
The Traditional Theory of Meaning
Embodied Simulation
Flying Pigs
The New Science of Meaning
CHAPTER 2 - Keep Your Mind on the Ball
The Perky Effect
The Mind Spins
Stimulating Sounds
Imagery Is Handy
Memory
Embodied Simulation
Do Gorillas Have Noses?
Mental Practice Revisited
CHAPTER 3 - Meaning and the Mind’s Eye
We Talk Simple
Vision 101
Don’t Think of an Elephant
The Elephant in the Room
Almost Like Being There
CHAPTER 4 - Over the Top
Monkey Do, Monkey See
The Give and Take of Motor Simulation
The Graspasaurus and Other Magnificent Toys
The Rest of the Body
CHAPTER 5 - More Than Words
Sentences as Plants
Sentences as Plants, Revisited
How Grammar Modulates Our Perspective
Grammatical Aspect Modulates Simulation Focus
What Grammar Tells Us
CHAPTER 6 - Early and Often
Time Flies
Incremental Simulation
In a Word
And Then?
Say It Ain’t So
Meaning on the Run
CHAPTER 7 - What Do Hockey Players Know?
Experience Matters
Different Strokes
Failures to Communicate
CHAPTER 8 - Lost in Translation
It Means Squat
The Skin of a Cat
Language as a Cultural Factor
Thinking for Speaking
Thinking in a Language
CHAPTER 9 - Meaning in Your Grasp
Understanding, Metaphorically
Metaphor in the Brain
What Are Metaphorical Simulations Like?
Speaking Abstractly
Metaphor Without Language?
Language on the Move
Lots of Open Windows
CHAPTER 10 - What Is Simulation Good For?
Interfering with Simulation
Physical Interference
Simulation Is Functional, But Is It Necessary or Sufficient?
Functional, Sure. But What Function?
CHAPTER 11 - The Repurposed Mind
The Age of Meaning
How We Got to Be This Way
Beyond Language
What Is It to Communicate?
EPILOGUE
Acknowledgments
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
PERMISSIONS
INDEX
Copyright Page
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