Embodied Methodologies: Semantic Differences of Somatic Variances
Embodied Methodologies: Semantic Differences of Somatic Variances

Summary/Abstract: Through various discursive practices, bodies are culturally constructed.Chains of signifiers are inscribed therein, thus creating lived realitiesof bodily variance. The process, however, goes both ways, and recent bodyscholarship is more and more insistent on bringing these perspectives together.What follows is a description of two qualitative approaches to the study ofembodiment through scientific inquiry within the humanities, phenomenologyand cognitive semiotics, as well as of their contribution to a wider field oftheory of science. The two approaches provide insights for understanding thenarratives of embodied self-experience, meaning-making processes, and thepotential (un)translatability of (pre-reflective) lived experiences. Despite themethodological differences and heteroglossia in the way in which they studybodies, the two disciplines have been chosen as their theoretical groundingsare compatible and together they help to provide a clearer picture and a thickerand more thorough description of the phenomena in question.

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