Stephen J. Cowley

List of John Benjamins publications for which Stephen J. Cowley plays a role.

Titles (5) | Order by:

Language as Social Coordination: An evolutionary perspective

Edited by Joanna Raczaszek-Leonardi and Stephen J. Cowley

Special issue of Interaction Studies 13:1 (2012) xvi, 145 pp.

Subjects Artificial Intelligence | Cognition and language | Evolution of language | Interaction Studies

Edited by Stephen J. Cowley

[Benjamins Current Topics, 34] 2011. ix, 220 pp.

Subjects Cognition and language | Pragmatics | Psycholinguistics | Semiotics

Edited by Tony Belpaeme, Stephen J. Cowley and Karl F. MacDorman

[Benjamins Current Topics, 21] 2009. v, 167 pp.

Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Theoretical linguistics

Edited by Stephen J. Cowley

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 17:3 (2009) v, 207 pp.

Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

Edited by Tony Belpaeme, Stephen J. Cowley and Karl F. MacDorman

Special issue of Interaction Studies 8:1 (2007) 180 pp.

Subjects Cognition and language | Evolution of language

Articles (15) | Order by:

Cowley, Stephen J. 2021 Review of Deppermann & Streeck (2018): Time in embodied interaction: Synchronicity and sequentiality of multimodal resources Pragmatics and Society 12:3, pp. 505–509 | Review

Fester, Marie-Theres and Stephen J. Cowley 2018 Breathing life into social presence: The case of texting between friends Pragmatics and Society 9:2, pp. 274–296 | Article

Whilst many studies focus on human-to-media interactions, this paper turns to how a multimodal medium contributes to human-to-human interaction. By bringing together both radical embodied cognitive science (Chemero 2009) and dialogism (Linell 2009), the paper develops an anti-representationalist… read more

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 | Article

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

Cowley, Stephen J. 2012 Mimesis and language: A distributed view Language as Social Coordination: An evolutionary perspective, Raczaszek-Leonardi, Joanna and Stephen J. Cowley (eds.), pp. 17–40 | Article

Cowley, Stephen J. 2012 Linguistic fire and human cognitive powers Culture – Language – Cognition, Dascal, Marcelo † (ed.), pp. 275–294 | Article

To view language as a cultural tool challenges much of what claims to be linguistic science while opening up a new people-centred linguistics. On this view, how we speak, think and act depends on, not just brains (or minds), but also cultural traditions. Yet, Everett is conservative: like others… read more

Raczaszek-Leonardi, Joanna and Stephen J. Cowley 2012 The evolution of language as controlled collectivity Language as Social Coordination: An evolutionary perspective, Raczaszek-Leonardi, Joanna and Stephen J. Cowley (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Article

Cowley, Stephen J. 2011 Distributed language Distributed Language, Cowley, Stephen J. (ed.), pp. 1–14 | Article

Fioratou, Evridiki and Stephen J. Cowley 2011 Insightful thinking: Cognitive dynamics and material artifacts Distributed Language, Cowley, Stephen J. (ed.), pp. 57–80 | Article

Cowley, Stephen J. 2010 Beyond symbols: Interaction and the enslavement principle New Adventures in Language and Interaction, Streeck, Jürgen (ed.), pp. 47–70 | Article

Humans often contextualize without using cues. While Gumperz showed that analysis is not sufficient to explain interaction, his view of what lay beyond symbols was based in cognitive internalism. Opposing this, prosody can be shown to contribute directly to conversational sense-making. Humans use… read more

Belpaeme, Tony and Stephen J. Cowley 2009 Foreword Symbol Grounding, Belpaeme, Tony, Stephen J. Cowley and Karl F. MacDorman (eds.), pp. 1–7 | Foreword

Cowley, Stephen J. 2009 How human infants deal with symbol grounding Symbol Grounding, Belpaeme, Tony, Stephen J. Cowley and Karl F. MacDorman (eds.), pp. 85–106 | Article

Cowley, Stephen J. 2009 Distributed language and dynamics Distributed Language, Cowley, Stephen J. (ed.), pp. 495–508 | Article

Language 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… read more

Fioratou, Evridiki and Stephen J. Cowley 2009 Insightful thinking: Cognitive dynamics and material artifacts Distributed Language, Cowley, Stephen J. (ed.), pp. 549–572 | Article

We trace how cognition arises beyond the skin. Experimental work on insight problem solving is used to examine how external artifacts can be used to reach the goal of assembling a ‘cheap necklace’. Instead of asking how insight occurs ‘in the head’, our participants in Experiment 1 can either draw… read more

Belpaeme, Tony and Stephen J. Cowley 2007 Foreword: Extending symbol grounding Symbol Grounding, Belpaeme, Tony, Stephen J. Cowley and Karl F. MacDorman (eds.), pp. 1–6 | Article

Cowley, Stephen J. 2007 How human infants deal with symbol grounding Symbol Grounding, Belpaeme, Tony, Stephen J. Cowley and Karl F. MacDorman (eds.), pp. 83–104 | Article

Taking a distributed view of language, this paper naturalizes symbol grounding. Learning to talk is traced to — not categorizing speech sounds — but events that shape the rise of human-style autonomy. On the extended symbol hypothesis, this happens as babies integrate micro-activity with slow and… read more