Sune Vork Steffensen

List of John Benjamins publications in which Sune Vork Steffensen is involved.

Journal

Cognitive Linguistic Studies

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 | 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

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 | Review article

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