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Distributed Languaging, Affective Dynamics, and the Human Ecology Volume I - The Sense-making Body (Hardcover)
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Distributed Languaging, Affective Dynamics, and the Human Ecology Volume I - The Sense-making Body (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Advances in Communication and Linguistic Theory
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Language plays a central role in human life. However, the term
'language' as defined in the language sciences of the 20th century
and the traditions these have drawn on, have arguably, limited our
thinking about what language is and does. The two inter-linked
volumes of Thibault's study articulate crucially important aspects
of an emerging new perspective shift on language - the Distributed
Language view - that is now receiving more and more attention
internationally. Rejecting the classical view that the fundamental
architecture of language can be localized as a number of
inter-related levels of formal linguistic organization that
function as the coded inputs and outputs to each other, the
distributed language view argues that languaging behaviour is a
bio-cultural organisation of process that is embodied, multimodal,
and integrated across multiple space-time scales. Thibault argues
that we need to think of human languaging as the distinctively
human mode of our becoming and being selves in the extended human
ecology and the kinds of experiencing that this makes possible.
Paradoxically, this also means thinking about language in
non-linguistic ways that break the grip of the conventional
meta-languages for thinking about human languaging. Thibault's book
grounds languaging in process theory: languaging and the forms of
experience it actualizes is always an event, not a thing that we
'use'. In taking a distinctively interdisciplinary approach, the
book relates dialogical theories of human sense-making to the
distributed view of human cognition, to recent thinking about
distributed language, to ecological psychology, and to languaging
as inter-individual affective dynamics grounded in the subjective
lives of selves. In taking this approach, the book considers the
coordination of selves in social encounters, the emergent forms of
self-reflexivity that characterise these encounters, and the
implications for how we think of and live our human sociality, not
as something that is mediated by over-arching codes and systems,
but as emerging from the endogenous subjectivities of selves when
they seek to coordinate with other selves and with the situations,
artefacts, social institutions, and technologies that populate the
extended human ecology. The two volumes aim to bring our
understanding of human languaging closer to human embodiment,
experience, and feeling while also showing how languaging enables
humans to transcend local circumstances and thus to dialogue with
cultural tradition. Volume 1 focuses on the shorter timescales of
bodily dynamics in languaging activity. Volume II integrates the
shorter timescales of body dynamics to the longer
cultural-historical timescales of the linguistic and cultural norms
and patterns to which bodily dynamics are integrated.
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