Abstract
We produce kinesic specifications when we cognitively process sensorimotor concepts. For example, the sensorimotor concept of falling may be processed as a life-threatening event or a mere cause of fleeting embarrassment. This article considers the cognitive production of kinesic specifications in legal and literary reasoning, focusing on the acts of reading and judging as they appear in early modern amplifications of the Book of Genesis, written by the French poets Maurice Scève and Guillaume de Saluste Du Bartas. Because of the historically situated religious belief system of the two poets, the latter considered Adam and Eve’s act of transgression to be the cause of their own reality. By means of kinesic specifications, they narratively “fleshed out” their understanding of the Fall of mankind, evincing the role that embodied cognition and movement-based meanings play in the human ability to reason about, and understand action and causation.
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