
What's Cognitive About Rhetoric?
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1311322
Van Evera Oakley, Todd
Social Science Research Network
2008
Abstract:
Our capacity for mimesis -- the capacity to represent experiences and states-of-affairs in iconic and indexical formats under strict bodily control -- molds later symbolic thought and action. Culture is not the initial product of language, language is the product of a particular manifestation of Mimetic Culture.