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[Pragmatics & Cognition 17:3] 2009
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Language, languaging, and the Extended Mind Hypothesis

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 | University of Southern Denmark, Odense
Published online: 2 December 2009
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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 language as a social phenomenon, I suggest an ecological approach to the extended mind hypothesis, arguing against Clark’s assumption that the extended mind is necessarily brain-centered.
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