The Philosophical Basis of Social Turning of Embodied Cognition From the Perspective of Symbolic Interactionism

Since the 1990s,embodied cognition has become the research trend of cognitive science.Due to excessive attention to embodiment and the physical environment,embodied cognition does not pay more attention to the social characteristics of cognition,especially the role of others and symbolic activities,making cognitive science research unable to get rid of solipsism.So,it is difficult for the embodied cognition to explain the uniformity and multiplicity of cognition,and the problem of“other”mind.To solve these problems,the paper expounds the relations between symbolic interactionism and embodied cognition and the necessity of social turning in embodied cognition.Through analyzing the thoughts of George H.Mead about cognition and the influence of his symbolic interactionism on embodied cognition,as well as discussing Mark Johnson’s view on social interactional aspects of embodied cognition,we emphasize that the social and symbolic interactions are indispensable factors of embodied cognition.The paper argues that higher-order cognition comes out of symbolic interactions;cognition generates from posture dialogue interaction and manifests itself through attitude;intersubjectivity is closely associated with symbolic interactionism.Therefore,studying the relations between symbolic interactionism and embodied cognition helps overcome the solipsism or individualism of embodied cognition,and accordingly contributes to the social turning of embodied cognition.

On Self and Other

In the philosophy of mind, the essential qualities of self and selfhood have been discussed widely. According to Zahavi （2015, 149）, ＂the notion of an experiential self is the precondition of any plausible account of intersubjectivity.＂ In Zahavi （2015）, he elaborates two influential views on selfhood and offers a phenomenological perspective from which he argues that selfhood is both a built-in feature of experience and socially constructed. In the following paper, we would further investigate the essential qualities of self in the line with Zahavi （2015） and provide a complementary quality of self from a phenomenological view, namely, the predictability of the expressive phenomena of subjects. We would also explore the intersubjective relationship between others and self and discuss the sharing phenomenon of empathy.

Research on the Current Situation of Development of Phenomenology and the Influences on Language Cognition

In this paper, we conduct research on current situation of development of phenomenology and the influences on language cognition. Language is a part of human cognition, it not only by the group, including cultural types and communication mode, objective social constraints, as also shared with human cognitive subject and the innate cognitive ability is closely related. Thus, the perspective of the cognitive linguistics and the cognitive introduced for expanding and deepening the research on cognitive linguistics has an important value. From the cognitive perspective and reveals language internalization mechanism is an important path to deepen the study of second language acquisition. So, with multidimensional research value and cognition, can provide important theoretical reference for language internalization. At the same time, the body cognitive is not the purpose of people, but merely a device methods or strategies. That is to say, those who have an information, experience and knowledge module, just as the main body of language cognition of raw materials, they need by the consciousness of main body of the higher order language system to filter, restructuring, deformation and consolidation, and language simulation of this new product for the secondary and experience.