Blurb:

The chapter focuses on the notion of meaning and the emergence of language. I discuss the social origins of language and its role as a means to regulate and modulate social interactions. I elaborate on the post-kinetic nature of language (described so by Maxine Sheets-Johnstone), i.e. the significance of early-life kinaesthetic experience for the development of abstract thinking and linguistic expression. Finally, I explain the basic concepts from cognitive linguistics (drawing from the work of George Lakoff, Mark Johnson, and Ronald Langacker) that I later apply in the analytical part of the study.