Sune Vork Steffensen

List of John Benjamins publications for which Sune Vork Steffensen plays a role.

Journal

Cognitive Linguistic Studies (CogLS)

Edited by Xu Wen and Zoltán Kövecses

ISSN 2213-8722 | E-ISSN 2213-8730

Articles

Cowley, Stephen J. and Sune Vork Steffensen. 2015. Coordination in language: Temporality and time-ranging. Coordination, Collaboration and Cooperation: Interdisciplinary perspectives, Amici, Federica and Lucas M. Bietti (eds.), pp. 474–494

Temporality underpins how living systems coordinate and function. Unlike measures that use mathematical conventions, lived temporalities grant functional cohesion to organisms-in-the-world. In foxtail grasses, for example, self-maintenance meshes endogenous processes with exogenous rhythms. In… read more | Article

Steffensen, Sune Vork. 2011. Beyond mind: An extended ecology of languaging. Distributed Language, Cowley, Stephen J. (ed.), pp. 185–210

Article

Steffensen, Sune Vork. 2009. Language, languaging, and the Extended Mind Hypothesis. Distributed Language, Cowley, Stephen J. (ed.), pp. 677–697

After a brief summary of Andy Clark’s book, Supersizing the Mind (2008) I address Clark’s approach to language which I argue to be inadequate. Clark is criticized for reifying language, thus neglecting that it is an interpersonal activity, not a stable system of symbols. With a starting point in… read more | Review article