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dc.contributor.authorCowley, S.
dc.date.accessioned2011-06-20T15:14:22Z
dc.date.available2011-06-20T15:14:22Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.identifier.citationCowley , S 2009 , ' Distributed language and dynamics ' , Pragmatics and Cognition , vol. 17 , no. 3 , pp. 495-507 .
dc.identifier.issn0929-0907
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 191991
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: 0cd21802-f082-46a0-a264-2fa67bcd6924
dc.identifier.otherdspace: 2299/6028
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 72549114433
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2299/6028
dc.descriptionOriginal article can be found at : http://www.ingentaconnect.com/ Copyright John Benjamins Publishing [Full text of this article is not available in the UHRA]
dc.description.abstractLanguage is coordination. Pursuing this, the present Special Issue of Pragmatics & Cognition challenges two widely held positions. First, the papers reject the claim that language is essentially 'symbolic'. Second, they deny that minds (or brains) represent verbal patterns. Rather, language is social, individual, and contributes the feeling of thinking. Simply, it is distributed. Elucidating this claim, the opening papers report empirically-based work on the anticipatory dynamics of reading, their cognitive consequences, Shakespearean theatre, what images evoke, and insight problem-solving. Having given reasons for rejecting linguistic autonomy, the papers turn to theory building. Initially, attention is given to a possible origin for semiotic cognition. Then, it is claimed that language functions by realizing values. Next, it is argued that human dynamics are co-regulated by cultural and biological symbols. Finally, in a review article, the distributed view of language is used to contrast Clark's (2008) organism-centered cognition with what is here called ecologically extended cognition.en
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofPragmatics and Cognition
dc.subjectbiosemiosis
dc.subjectcognition
dc.subjectdistributed cognition
dc.subjectdistributed language
dc.subjectdynamical systems
dc.subjectembodiment
dc.subjectgeneral linguistics
dc.subjectsemiotic cognition
dc.titleDistributed language and dynamicsen
dc.contributor.institutionDepartment of Psychology
dc.description.statusPeer reviewed
rioxxterms.typeJournal Article/Review
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