Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- List of contributors -- Introduction: The body eclectic -- We are live creatures: Embodiment, American Pragmatism and the cognitive organism -- Bringing the body back to life: James Gibson's ecology of agency -- From the meaning of embodiment to the embodiment of meaning: A study in phenomenological selDiotics -- Embodiment and social interaction: A cognitive science perspective -- Representing actions and functional properties in conceptual spaces -- From pre-representational cognition to language -- Making sense of embodied cognition: Simulation theories of shared neural mechanisms for sensorimotor and cognitive processes -- Phenomenological and experimental contributions to understanding embodied experience -- Embodiment, language, and mimesis -- The body in space: Dimensions of embodiment -- On the biosemiotics of embodiment and our human cyborg nature -- Embodiment and self-organization of human categories: A case study for speech -- Communication as situated, embodied practice -- Backmatter.