The embodied mind extended: using words as social tools.
Frontiers in Psychology 2013 Anna M Borghi, Claudia Scorolli, Daniele Caligiore et al.
The extended mind view and the embodied-grounded view of cognition and language are typically considered as rather independent perspectives. In this paper we propose a possible integration of the two views and support it proposing the idea of "Words As social Tools" (WAT). In this respect, we will propose that words, also due to their social and public character, can be conceived as...