Daniel Casasanto: The Ad Hoc Construction of Meaning

Daniel Casasanto: The Ad Hoc Construction of Meaning

Explore a 35-minute lecture by Daniel Casasanto, Associate Professor of Psychology and Human Development at Cornell University, on the ad hoc construction of meaning. Delve into topics such as Plato's Aviary, ad hoc concepts and categories, the ubiquity of nonce sense, and the Body-Specificity Hypothesis. Examine how action verbs activate somatotopic regions of the brain and how word meaning depends on the language user's body. Investigate the motor component of action verb understanding and the creation of meaning in indirect requests. Gain insights into the ad hoc use of scientific constructs and the role of context in cognitive linguistics.