15. Language and the signifying object: From convention to imagination

Sinha, Chris; Garrido, Cintia Rodríguez

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“…For example, Steffensen, Thibault and Cowley (2010) 18 deal with 'cognitive events' as involving individual and shared knowledge and experiences, including shared communicative biographies, cultural norms, social hierachies, interpretations/sense-makings of events, objects and artefacts in the concrete situation, practical and normative constraints on verbal interaction (e.g. all people cannot talk simultaneously in a multi-person situation), and and Rampton 2011; Duarte and Gogolin 2013).…”

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Interactivities, intersubjectivities and language

Linell¹

2014

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This theoretical paper deals with intersubjectivity and interactivity in relation to language and sense-making. It starts out from a critical discussion of certain proposals regarding the nature and localisation of language, that is, radical versions of individualism and collectivism. The conclusion is that both are untenable. Instead, we must assume that language originates and lives in interactivities between sense-making people. Such an 'interactionism' is close to dialogism.The bulk of the paper is devoted to the relations between interactivities and intersubjectivities. Adducing arguments from a cross-disciplinary approach to language and languaging, we end up with a conclusion that interactivities are more basic than both intersubjectivities and linguistic dialogue. In the summarising discussion the paper suggests some foundations for a dynamic and dialogical language science, as an antidote to formal linguistics. Where is language, in the individuals or in the cultural collectivity?My main topic in this article will be intersubjectivity and language. However, I will argue, in accordance with many other present-day commentators, that interactivity is a more basic notion than both these phenomena. I will also suggest that we may wish to use the basic terms in the plural rather than in the singular: interactivities and intersubjectivities. But for a start I will take a brief look at another general issue, that of individuality vs. collectivity of language, since this could serve as a suitable backdrop for a discussion of interactivities and intersubjectivities.The issue of the nature of language with regard to individuality or collectivity is legion in the history of the language sciences; cf. e.g. Rommetveit (2008),

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“…Steffensen, Thibault and Cowley (2010), Cowley (2011) and others in the ' distributed language' group of scholars coined their term on Hutchins's (1995) notion of ' distributed cognition' . the actual sociodialogue (verbal interaction) with its intercorporeal dynamics.…”

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Interactivities, intersubjectivities and language

Linell¹

2014

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“…(Itkonen 2003(Itkonen , 2008Zlatev 2007Zlatev , 2008aZlatev , 2010Sinha 1999;Sinha & Rodríguez 2008;Harder 2007). These scholars systematically demonstrate that embodiment theory is insufficient for linguistic explanation and, especially, for any embodied theory of language.…”

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“…Thus, it is opposed to everything individual and psychologically subjective (see also Zlatev 2010, Sinha 1999, Harder 2007). 34 The essays on intersubjectivity in The Shared Mind: Perspectives on Intersubjectivity demonstrate the constant efforts to link intersubjectivity to other central concepts in cognitive science, such as embodiment (e.g., Gallagher 2005;Zahavi 2003;Sonesson 2007Sonesson , 2009) and language (Itkonen 2003(Itkonen , 2006(Itkonen , 2008(Itkonen , 2009Zlatev 2007Zlatev , 2008aZlatev , 2010Sinha 1999;Sinha & Rodríguez 2008). 35 For a defence of these sciences as hermeneutical sciences in CL, see (Itkonen 2003(Itkonen , 2008Zlatev 2010.…”

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Introduction: Thirty Years After

Fusaroli

Morgagni

2009

Cognitive Semiotics

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“…On the other hand, having commom and shared everyday previous knowledge does not guarantee the teacher's success in promoting learning in the classroom. Rather, one of the fundamental actions for minimal conditions of referential intersubjectivity (Sinha and Rodriguez, 2008) is the recognition that the previous knowledge of the learners is a constitutive feature of the didactic practice. This condition allows them to build bridges between what they already know and the new information that the teacher is offering them.…”

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Learning in Cognitive Niches

Gerhardt¹

2012

Current Topics in Children's Learning and Cognition

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15. Language and the signifying object: From convention to imagination

Cited by 37 publications

References 17 publications

Interactivities, intersubjectivities and language

Interactivities, intersubjectivities and language

Introduction: Thirty Years After

Learning in Cognitive Niches

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