Life after the symbol system metaphor

Interaction Studies

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 143-158

  MacDorman, Karl F ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affordance; Conduit metaphor; Distributed cognition; Embodiment; Language of thought; The symbol grounding problem

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547892156     PISSN: 15720373     EISSN: 15720381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/is.8.1.09mac     Document Type: Editorial

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