Human Agency and the Resources of Reason

Neumann, Martín; Cowley, Stephen J.

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“…Emphasis on coordination allows due weight to be given to the fact that languaging predates literacy by tens-of-thousands of years. By hypothesis, all linguistic skills derive from face-to-face activity or languaging” (Neumann and Cowley, 2013, p. 18).…”

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Emotion in languaging: languaging as affective, adaptive, and flexible behavior in social interaction

Jensen

2014

Front. Psychol.

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This article argues for a view on languaging as inherently affective. Informed by recent ecological tendencies within cognitive science and distributed language studies a distinction between first order languaging (language as whole-body sense making) and second order language (language as system like constraints) is put forward. Contrary to common assumptions within linguistics and communication studies separating language-as-a-system from language use (resulting in separations between language vs. body-language and verbal vs. non-verbal communication etc.) the first/second order distinction sees language as emanating from behavior making it possible to view emotion and affect as integral parts languaging behavior. Likewise, emotion and affect are studied, not as inner mental states, but as processes of organism-environment interactions. Based on video recordings of interaction between (1) children with special needs, and (2) couple in therapy and the therapist patterns of reciprocal influences between interactants are examined. Through analyzes of affective stance and patterns of inter-affectivity it is exemplified how language and emotion should not be seen as separate phenomena combined in language use, but rather as completely intertwined phenomena in languaging behavior constrained by second order patterns.

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Emotion in languaging: languaging as affective, adaptive, and flexible behavior in social interaction

Jensen

2014

Front. Psychol.

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“… 4 Cowley and Vallée-Tourangeau (2013) defend the usage by linking distributed cognition ( Hutchins, 1995 ) to interactivity or sense-saturated coordination (see, Maturana’s (1978) ; Steffensen, 2013 ; Kirsh, 2015 ; to structural coupling ( Maturana, 1978 ), one comes to focus on interactivity or sense-saturated coordination ( Steffensen, 2013 ; Kirsh, 2015 ). In a cultural ecosystem ( Hutchins, 2014 ), the impersonal aspect of language and experience makes cognition diachronic ( Neumann and Cowley, 2013 ). …”

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How peer-review constrains cognition: on the frontline in the knowledge sector

Cowley

2015

Front. Psychol.

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Peer-review is neither reliable, fair, nor a valid basis for predicting ‘impact’: as quality control, peer-review is not fit for purpose. Endorsing the consensus, I offer a reframing: while a normative social process, peer-review also shapes the writing of a scientific paper. In so far as ‘cognition’ describes enabling conditions for flexible behavior, the practices of peer-review thus constrain knowledge-making. To pursue cognitive functions of peer-review, however, manuscripts must be seen as ‘symbolizations’, replicable patterns that use technologically enabled activity. On this bio-cognitive view, peer-review constrains knowledge-making by writers, editors, reviewers. Authors are prompted to recursively re-aggregate symbolizations to present what are deemed acceptable knowledge claims. How, then, can recursive re-embodiment be explored? In illustration, I sketch how the paper’s own content came to be re-aggregated: agonistic review drove reformatting of argument structure, changes in rhetorical ploys and careful choice of wordings. For this reason, the paper’s knowledge-claims can be traced to human activity that occurs in distributed cognitive systems. Peer-review is on the frontline in the knowledge sector in that it delimits what can count as knowing. Its systemic nature is therefore crucial to not only discipline-centered ‘real’ science but also its ‘post-academic’ counterparts.

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Cognition Beyond the Brain

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2013

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Human Agency and the Resources of Reason

Cited by 10 publications

References 42 publications

Emotion in languaging: languaging as affective, adaptive, and flexible behavior in social interaction

Emotion in languaging: languaging as affective, adaptive, and flexible behavior in social interaction

How peer-review constrains cognition: on the frontline in the knowledge sector

Cognition Beyond the Brain

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