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The relationship between language and the human body has been exten-
sively investigated in cognitive sciences and linguistics for about four decades
now. Starting with the original notions of linguistic embodiment and expe-
rientialism put forward by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson which focused
on body-grounded conceptualization (Lakoff and Johnson 1980, 1999, John-
son 1987, Lakoff 1987), the embodied character of language has been sup-
ported by research in semantics and cultural studies, but also by empirical evi-
dence coming from psycholinguistics, neurology and other sciences (cf. Barsa-
lou 1999, 2008, Bergen et al. 2010, Csordas 1994, Gibbs 2006, McPherron and
Ramanathan 2011, Siakaluk et al. 2011, Ziemke et al., among others). As Lakoff
and Johnson put it: “the very structure of reason itself comes from the details
of our embodiment. The same neural and cognitive mechanisms that allow us
to perceive and move around also create our conceptual systems and models
of reason” (1999: 4)