%0 Journal Article
%T Linguistic tools for embodied minds
%A Anna M. Borghi
%A Felice Cimatti
%A Marco Tullio Liuzza
%J Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio
%D 2012
%I University of Calabria
%X In this paper, we outline the embodied perspective of language comprehension indicating some of its limitations. We claim that the notions of language as a tool (CLARK 2006a, 2006b), might be useful to overcome a view focused only on referential aspects of language. Words, in quality of tools, can: a. facilitate communication among speakers; b. influence categorization; c. have a different impact on concrete and abstract words; d. allow us to construct an inner speech. Finally, we discuss how thinking about language as tool can help inform future research on thought, language and body
%K Embodiment
%K Language as tool
%K Vygotskji
%K Inner speech
%K Cultural animal
%U http://dx.medra.org/10.4396/20120704