Linguistics, Russian linguistics, and Language Studies

Publication Date: 2013

Publication Name: Russian Linguistics

Embodied Cognition

More Info: by David J. DeLiema and Francis F. Steen

Cognitive Linguistics and Multimodal Communication

More Info: by Francis F. Steen and Mark B. Turner

Abstract Chase play is a spontaneous and highly enjoyable type of physical activity play engaged in by preschool children. This study focused on the chase play of 2.5-to 5.5-year-olds. It was an observational study pe... more abstractAbstract Chase play is a spontaneous and highly enjoyable type of physical activity play engaged in by preschool children. This study focused on the chase play of 2.5-to 5.5-year-olds. It was an observational study performed in the naturalistic setting of a laboratory school day care playground. The ethological and grounded theory methodologies informed both data collection and analysis. The results of analysis indicated chase play to be a more complex form of physical activity play than previously described in the literature.

Abstract: The portrayal of the actions of fictive characters for purposes of entertainment is a familiar phenomenon. Theories that seek to explain why we are attracted to such fictions and whether we learn from them h... more abstractAbstract: The portrayal of the actions of fictive characters for purposes of entertainment is a familiar phenomenon. Theories that seek to explain why we are attracted to such fictions and whether we learn from them have produced no consensus and no adequate overall account. In this paper, we present the hypothesis that entertainment relies on cognitive adaptations for pretend play. As a simplified model system, we draw on our field study of children's chase play, which is characterized by an elementary form of pretense.

Evolutionary Psychology, Entertainment Theory, and Children's Play

More Info: by Francis F. Steen and Stephanie Owens

Journal Name: Journal of Cognition and Culture

Publication Date: 2001

Literary studies and the cognitive sciences, pursuing common interests in language, mental acts, and linguistic artifacts, have developed markedly different approaches to similar phenomena of reading, imaginative invo... more abstractLiterary studies and the cognitive sciences, pursuing common interests in language, mental acts, and linguistic artifacts, have developed markedly different approaches to similar phenomena of reading, imaginative involvement, and textual patterning. Until quite recently, the distance between them has drawn more attention than their possible convergence (Franchi and Güzeldere).

Journal Name: Poetics Today

Publication Date: 2002

A poet started it. In the fall of 1677, An Account of the Growth of Popery, and Arbitrary Government in England was traded in the dark corners of coffee houses and back alleys.

Journal Name: Clio's Psyche

Publication Date: 2000

Why do human beings show such a strong preference for thinking in narratives? From a computational perspective, this method of generating inferences appears to be exorbitantly wasteful. Using students' responses to th... more abstractWhy do human beings show such a strong preference for thinking in narratives? From a computational perspective, this method of generating inferences appears to be exorbitantly wasteful. Using students' responses to the fairy tale of Little Red Riding Hood, I argue that narrative comprehension requires the construction of idiosyncratic imagery, but that the cognitive yield is structural and shared. This peculiar method of information processing, I suggest, is the outcome of evolutionary path-dependence.

Journal Name: Journal of Cultural and Evolutionary Psychology

Publication Date: Mar 1, 2005