# The co-evolution of intersubjectivity and bodily mimesis **Opening (not a real abstract):** Many if not most would agree that there is a close relationship between intersubjectivity and language. But what more precisely is this relation? The first impediment to answering this question is definitional. As several of the contributions to this volume show, there are rather different understandings of the concept of intersubjectivity. For the purpose of this chapter, intersubjectivity will be taken to be the sharing of affective, perceptual and reflective experiences between two or more subjects. As Brinck (this volume) notes, “sharing” takes different forms, some more immediate, while others more mediated by higher cognitive processes, e.g. what Barresi and Moore (this volume) call “understanding” as opposed to simply “sharing”. The phenomenon of joint attention (e.g. Moore and Dunham 1995), for example, would qualify as a paradigmatic form of perceptual intersubjectivity. **Authors:** [[Jordan Zlatev]]