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Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry
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Ezequiel A. Di Paolo (Intervention)
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Ezequiel A. Di Paolo. EMMA. (2025, 20 novembre). • Ezequiel A. Di Paolo (Ikerbasque, the Basque Foundation for Science, Spain) “The historicity of linguistic bodies” , in Expressivity, Bodies and Language in the Twenty-First Century. [Vidéo]. Canal-U. https://www.canal-u.tv/168391. (Consultée le 27 novembre 2025)

• Ezequiel A. Di Paolo (Ikerbasque, the Basque Foundation for Science, Spain) “The historicity of linguistic bodies”

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The embodied turn in cognitive science was partly driven by work on cognitive linguistics in the 1980s. Bodily constraints, processes, structures, habits, and relations to the world provide us with a rich set of phenomena and ideas that help us better explain, clarify, and extend our understanding of language and thought. To this day, for much of cognitive linguistics, the body serves as a universal constraint—something that explains widespread aspects of how we use and understand language, leading to the concise claim: language is embodied. This claim progresses from embodied practices to language itself. 

In our work on an enactive approach to language, we theorise the different dimensions of embodiment (organic, sensorimotor, social) to interrogate the kinds of social agency involved in each act of languaging. There is no universal body. Bodies, in the plural, are historical processes of becoming; they are diverse and open-ended, shaped in part by the habits and language practices we engage and grow up with. Human embodied and linguistic practices are mutually constituted. Not only is language embodied, but in a strict sense, our bodies are linguistic.

In this talk, I will overview the broad assumptions and central ideas of the enactive approach to language, sketch the dialectical methodology that enables us to move from broad forms of participatory sense-making to linguistic agency, and mention some conceptual, empirical, therapeutic, and ethical implications.

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