Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- List of contributors -- Introduction: The body eclectic -- Section A: Historical roots -- We are live creatures: Embodiment, American -- Pragmatism and the cognitive organism -- Bringing the body back to life: James Gibson's -- ecology of agency -- From the meaning of embodiment to the embodiment of -- meaning: A study in phenomenological selDiotics -- Embodiment and social interaction: A cognitive -- science perspective -- Section B: Body and mind -- Representing actions and functional properties in -- conceptual spaces -- From pre-representational cognition to -- language -- Making sense of embodied cognition: Simulation -- theories of shared neural mechanisms for sensorimotor and cognitive -- processes -- Phenomenological and experimental contributions to -- understanding embodied experience -- Section C: Body, language and culture -- Embodiment, language, and mimesis -- The body in space: Dimensions of embodiment -- On the biosemiotics of embodiment and our human -- cyborg nature -- Embodiment and self-organization of human -- categories: A case study for speech -- Communication as situated, embodied -- practice -- Backmatter