Feeling, Thinking, and Talking How the Embodied Brain Shapes Everyday Communication
Feeling, Thinking, and Talking: How the Embodied Brain Shapes Everyday Communication by L. David Ritchie, published by Cambridge University Press on March 20, 2025, offers a comprehensive exploration of the interplay between the brain, body, and mind in shaping communication. This 363-page book addresses a significant gap in understanding how social structures influence communication, presenting a novel account that integrates theories from communication studies and psycholinguistics with biological and evolutionary perspectives.
Readers will find that this work illustrates how communication functions as both a biological and social force, emphasizing the evolution of language and the neural systems that support it in response to complex social environments. The book introduces a clear set of terms based on current research and uses real-life examples from everyday conversation to engage with contemporary debates surrounding the evolutionary and biological foundations of language. Through its thought-provoking insights, this edition aims to reshape our understanding of the relationship between communication and cognition.
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The way the brain, body, and mind interact with social structure to shape communication has so far not received the attention it deserves. This book addresses this gap by providing a novel account of communication as a social, biological and neurological force. Combining theories from communication studies and psycholinguistics, and drawing on biological and evolutionary perspectives, it shows how communication is inherently both biological and social, and that language and the neural systems that support it have evolved in response to a complex social environment. It introduces a clear set of terms based on current research, and illustrates key concepts using real-life examples from everyday conversation – speaking to a number of current debates around the evolutionary and biological basis of language, and the relationship between language, cognition, and environment. Thought provoking and engaging, it will change the way we think about the relationship between communication and cognition.
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