Phenomenology of language in a 4e world

Abstract

The topic suggested by this chapter’s title might seem an unlikely one. On the one hand, phenomenology of language is something of a neglected field. This is perhaps partly because historically phenomenologists have been reluctant to venture into the supposed linguistic territory of analytic philosophy, tending instead to focus either more broadly on consciousness, disclosure, or signs, or on the views of language in individual authors. On the other hand, cognitive science in the ’4e’ tradition-that highlighting the embodied, embedded, enactive, and extended nature of cognition-is generally understood to be defined by a turn away from language. More specifically, it distances itself from the..