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Title:	Embodiment in the diversity of literary experience: a reply to Wolfgang Teubert (2021)
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Abstract:	Abstract This article offers our reply to Wolfgang Teubert. 2021. Embodiment is not the answer to meaning: A discussion of the theory underlying the article by Carina Rasse and Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. in JLS 50(1). Journey of Literary Semantics 50. 89–106. Teurbert’s article examined discussion of our earlier publication in this journal on metaphorical thinking in people’s literary experiences of J.D. Salinger’s novel “The Catcher in the Rye.” Teubert makes several points about our advocacy of an embodied perspective on literary meaning and interpretation. He argues that literary experience is best characterized in terms of people’s verbalized, reflective statements about the meanings of literary texts. Data from cognitive linguistic analyses and behavioral experiments are less compelling, in his view, because these studies examine embodied metaphors from a discourse-external perspective and mostly focus on people’s fast, mostly unconscious processing of verbal metaphors. Our reply highlights the importance of studying linguistic understanding, and literary experience, along varying time-dimensions, the fact that many linguistic and behavioral studies examine embodied metaphorical thinking in more reflective, social circumstances, exactly as Teubert recommends. Finally, we suggest that looking at literary experience from an embodied perspective is tightly associated with a discourse-analytic point of view. Scholars can never dismiss the reality of embodiment in literary experience because it provides a critical, but not exclusive, constraint on how we express ourselves and enable others to create specific patterns of meaning in the words they read.
Keywords:	Literature and Literary Theory, Linguistics and Language, Language and Linguistics

Publication type:	Article in journal (Authorship)
Publication date:	04.04.2022 (Online)
Published by:	Journal of Literary Semantics Journal of Literary Semantics to publication ( De Gruyter Mouton; )
Title of the series:	-
Volume number:	51
Issue:	1
First publication:	Yes
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Page:	pp. 55 - 66

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Publication date:	04.04.2022
ISBN (e-book):	-
eISSN:	1613-3838
DOI:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jls-2022-2050
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Open access	Available online (not open access)

Publication date:	26.04.2022
ISBN:	-
ISSN:	0341-7638
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Subject areas	501 - Psychology 602 - Linguistics and Literature
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