Notating Indigenous Conceptions of Action and Space in Plains Sign Language
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It is counterintuitive to many investigators of body movement to learn that understanding visible forms of expression does not depend upon detailed observation of what can be seen. It would be a mistake, however, to assume that the unobservable components of meaning must therefore be located .in internal mental states or processes-a move typical of what Harre and Gillett have called the "first cognitive revolution" in psychology (1994: 8). It would also be a mistake to think that such cognitivism is the only alternative to behavior' of the behaviorist variety.
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