Moving Ourselves, Moving Others Motion and emotion in intersubjectivity, consciousness and language Edited by Ad Foolen, Ulrike M. Lüdtke, Timothy P. Racine and Jordan Zlatev John Benjamins Publishing Company Moving Ourselves, Moving Others Consciousness & Emotion Book Series Consciousness & Emotion Book Series publishes original works on this topic, in philosophy, psychology and the neurosciences. The series emphasizes thoughtful analysis of the implications of both empirical and experiential (e.g., clinical psychological) approaches to emotion. It will include topical works by scientists who are interested in the implications of their empirical findings for an understanding of emotion and consciousness and their interrelations. For an overview of all books published in this series, please see http://benjamins.com/catalog/ceb Editors Ralph D. Ellis Peter Zachar Clark Atlanta University Auburn University Montgomery Editorial Board Carl M. Anderson Eugene T. Gendlin Maxim I. Stamenov McLean Hospital, Harvard University University of Chicago Bulgarian Academy of Sciences School of Medicine, Cambridge, MA Jaak Panksepp Douglas F. Watt Bill Faw Bowling Green State University, OH Quincy Hospital, Boston, MA Brewton Parker College, Mt. Vernon, GA Advisory Editors Bernard J. Baars Valerie Gray Hardcastle Martin Peper Wright Institute, Berkeley, CA Virginia Polytechnic Institute, University of Marburg, Germany Thomas C. Dalton Blacksburg, VA Edward Ragsdale California Polytechnic Institute, Alfred W. Kaszniak New York, NY San Luis Obispo, CA University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ Howard Shevrin Nicholas Georgalis Alfred R. Mele University of Michigan, East Carolina University, Greenville, Florida State University, Ann Arbor, MI NC Talahassee, FL Lynn Stephens George Graham Natika Newton University of Alabama, Wake Forest University, Wake Forest, Nassau County Community College, Birmingham, AL North Carolina New York Kathleen Wider University of Michigan, Dearborn, MI Volume 6 Moving Ourselves, Moving Others. Motion and emotion in intersubjectivity, consciousness and language Edited by Ad Foolen, Ulrike M. Lüdtke, Timothy P. Racine and Jordan Zlatev Moving Ourselves, Moving Others Motion and emotion in intersubjectivity, consciousness and language Edited by Ad Foolen Radboud University Nijmegen Ulrike M. Lüdtke Leibniz Universität Hannover Timothy P. Racine Simon Fraser University Jordan Zlatev Lund University John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam / Philadelphia TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of 8 the American National Standard for Information Sciences – Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ansi z39.48-1984. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Moving ourselves, moving others : motion and emotion in intersubjectivity, consciousness and language / edited by Ad Foolen...[et al.]. p. cm. (Consciousness & Emotion Book Series, issn 2352-099X ; v. 6) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Motion in language. 2. Language and emotions. I. Foolen, Ad. P120.M65M69 2012 401--dc23 2011049417 isbn 978 90 272 4156 6 (Hb ; alk. paper) isbn 978 90 272 7491 5 (Eb) An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high quality books Open Access for the public good. The Open Access isbn for this book is 978 90 272 7491 5. © 2012 – John Benjamins B.V. This e-book is licensed under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND license. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. For any use beyond this license, please contact the publisher. John Benjamins Publishing Company · https://benjamins.com Table of contents Introduction vii Prologue: Bodily motion, emotion and mind science 1 Jordan Zlatev part i. Consciousness Fundamental and inherently interrelated aspects of animation 29 Maxine Sheets-Johnstone Could moving ourselves be the link between emotion and consciousness? 57 Ralph D. Ellis & Natika Newton Visual perception and self-movement: Another look 81 Søren Overgaard Emotion regulation through the ages 105 Stuart Shanker Moving others matters 139 Vasudevi Reddy part ii. Intersubjectivity Neurons, neonates and narrative: From empathic resonance to empathic understanding 167 Shaun Gallagher Intersubjectivity in the lifeworld: Meaning, cognition, and affect 197 Barbara Fultner Primates, motion and emotion: To what extent nonhuman primates are intersubjective and why 221 Timothy P. Racine, Tyler J. Wereha & David A. Leavens Reaching, requesting and reflecting: From interpersonal engagement to thinking 243 Jeremy I.M. Carpendale & Charlie Lewis vi Moving Ourselves, Moving Others Intuitive meaning: Supporting impulses for interpersonal life in the sociosphere of human knowledge, practice and language 261 Bodo Frank & Colwyn Trevarthen Relational emotions in semiotic and linguistic development: Towards an intersubjective theory of language learning and language therapy 305 Ulrike M. Lüdtke part iii. Language The relevance of emotion for language and linguistics 349 Ad Foolen From pre-symbolic gestures to language: Multisensory early intervention in deaf children 369 Klaus-B. Günther & Johannes Hennies The challenge of complexity: Body, mind and language in interaction 383 Edda Weigand (E)motion in the XVIIth century. A closer look at the changing semantics of the French verbs émouvoir and mouvoir 407 Annelies Bloem Metaphor and subjective experience: A study of motion-emotion metaphors in English, Swedish, Bulgarian, and Thai 423 Jordan Zlatev, Johan Blomberg & Ulf Magnusson Epilogue: Natural sources of meaning in human sympathetic vitality 451 Colwyn Trevarthen Index 485 Introduction This book is inspired by the theme session “Intersubjectivity and Language: The Inter- play of Cognition and Emotion” held at the 10th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference in Krakow, Poland, in July 2007. As organizers of the session, we felt that an interdisciplinary volume on this matter would be an appropriate follow-up. In addition to contributors from the theme session, we invited authors who are well known in the field. Their positive response led to a total of 16 papers, which we grouped into 3 Parts: I Consciousness, II Intersubjectivity, and III Language. We asked each of the contributors to discuss these ‘higher functions’ of the human mind from the foundational perspective of motion and/or emotion (See Figure 1 in the Prologue). The polyphonous result contains, we think, many harmonizing but also some disharmonizing tones. As such, the volume constitutes a relevant contribution to the actual discussions in the humanities with respect to the human mind. The 16 papers are framed by a Prologue and an Epilogue. Jordan Zlatev, one of the editors and also co-author of one of the papers in Part III, wrote the Prologue in which he introduces each paper in the overarching perspective of motion and emotion. Colwyn Trevarthen, co-author of one of the papers in Part II, followed our request to write an Epilogue, in which he reflects on the contributions of the volume and places them in a historical perspective. Editing a voluminous collection as the present one does not involve much motion, besides moving fingers and hand on keyboard and mouse. A good deal of emotion was and is involved, however. Above all feelings of thankfulness. First of all, our gratitude goes to the authors for their work and patient cooperation over the years that the volume took shape. Secondly, we thank the colleagues who were willing to act as anonymous reviewers for the different papers. Special thanks go to Ralph Ellis, co-editor of the Consciousness & Emotion Book Series in which this volume is being published. Ralph has given us useful support along the way and even felt inspired to contribute, with Natika Newton, with a chapter. Thanks are also due to Hanneke Bruintjes and Els van Dongen, Acquisition Editors at Benjamins, who guided us through a time plan that we broke more than once. Finally, we thank Wes- sel Stoop, student assistant to Ad Foolen, who took care of formatting the contribu- tions and uploading them on a website, so that authors and editors always had access to the latest versions of the texts. After completion of the volume, hope and confidence are the dominant feelings on our side. Confidence that there is an interesting path before us, on which it will be viii Moving Ourselves, Moving Others pleasant and exciting to move forward to a science of the mind. We hope that this book inspires the reader to join us on this path. Ad Foolen Ulrike M. Lüdtke Tim Racine Jordan Zlatev Prologue Bodily motion, emotion and mind science Jordan Zlatev Lund University 1. Why ‘motion’ and ‘emotion’? This book emerged as a happy coincidence. Or was it perhaps a matter of unplanned, but non-accidental “distributed cognition”? In retrospect it seems that it was some- thing that was just waiting to happen. Based on our edited volume The Shared Mind (Zlatev et al. 2008), Tim Racine, Chris Sinha, Esa Itkonen and myself proposed a theme session with the title “Intersubjectivity and Language” to the 10th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, held in Krakow, Poland, in July 2007. At the same time, Ad Foolen and Ulrike Lüdtke independently proposed a session on “ Language and Emotion”. Both proposals were accepted, but we were urged to combine them, and the outcome was the stimulating whole-day workshop “Intersubjectivity and Language: The Interplay