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The two inter-linked volumes in this series are dedicated to the
development of analysis and theorisation of learning and teaching
in higher education. The two volumes focus on the multi-scalar
ecological inter-connectedness of learners with teachers, with
artefacts, with cultural patterns and resources, with places, with
social activities and practices, with social institutions, with
time and temporality, and with technologies. Learning reflects
inter-individual dynamics that are shaped by biology and culture.
Against prevailing orthodoxies that view learning in higher
education in terms of "information transmission" and "content
delivery," the contributors articulate leading developments in
distributed cognition, distributed language, ecological psychology,
enactivist and embodied-embedded cognitive science, interactivity,
and multimodal event analysis. They also extend several earlier
traditions such as American pragmatism, embodied curriculum theory,
and Vygotsky's latter day anti-dualist Spinozan turn. Through
detailed empirical analysis of in vivo episodes of learning using
multimodal event analysis, cognitive event analysis, and
cutting-edge theory, the authors show how and why learning is not
adequately explainable as internal mental processes per se.
Instead, sophisticated empirical analysis and innovative theory are
put to work to reveal the emergence of learning in the
interactivity of learners and teachers with the affordances of a
distributed brain-body-environment learning system. Volume 1 is an
edited collection of seven chapters written by internationally
renowned researchers together with an Introduction and an Afterword
written by King and Thibault. Volume 1 (and its successor Volume 2)
will serve as valuable reading for educationalists and researchers
in the cognitive, communication, learning, and language sciences
who are looking for new multidimensional tools for thinking about,
and new empirical tools for analysing, learning, and teaching as
multi-scalar interactive processes in radical embodied ecologies of
learning and teaching.
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 localised as a number of
inter-related levels of formal linguistic organisation that
function as the coded inputs and outputs to each other, the
distributed language view argues that languaging behaviour is a
bio-cultural organiation 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 actualises 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 I 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.
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.
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 localised as a number of
inter-related levels of formal linguistic organisation that
function as the coded inputs and outputs to each other, the
distributed language view argues that languaging behaviour is a
bio-cultural organiation 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 actualises 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 I 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.
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.
Through a detailed re-reading of Saussure's work in the light of
contemporary developments in the human, life and physical sciences,
Paul Thibault provides us with the means to redefine and refocus
our theories of social meaning-making.
Saussure's theory of language is generally considered to be a
formal theory of abstract sign-types and sign-systems, separate
from our individual and social practices of making meaning. In this
challenging book, Thibault presents a different view of Saussure.
Paying close attention to the original texts, including the "Cours
de Linguistic Generale, " he demonstrates that Saussure was
centrally concerned with trying to formulate a theory of how
meanings are made. In addition to demonstrating the continuing
viability of Saussure's thinking through a range of examples,
"Re-reading Saussure" makes an important intervention in
contemporary linguistic and semiotic debate.
Saussure's theory of language is generally considered to be a formal theory of abstract sign-types and sign-system. Thibault presents a different view of Saussure. He pays close attention to the original texts and demonstrates that Saussure was centrally concerned with trying to formulate a theory of how meanings are made. Re-reading Saussure does more than simply engage with Saussure's theory in a new and up-to-date way. In addition to demonstrating the continuing viability of Saussure's thinking through a range of examples, it makes an important intervention in contemporary linguistic and semiotic debate.
What are multimodal texts? How can we transcribe and analyse them?
How can multimedia and internet help us in multimodal discourse
analysis? What postproduction and authoring skills are needed to
analyse a multimodal text or to develop a corpus of multimodal
texts? How does integrating multimedia meaning-making resources
into hypertext multiply our meaning-making potential? How does the
study of language relate to multimodality and multimedia, in
particular in the e-learning age? How, and to what extent, will
multimodal discourse analysis re-shape linguistics? In its attempt
to provide answers to the questions raised above, and many others,
this book proposes concrete solutions to the problems of multimodal
text analysis and transcription of printed texts, websites and
film. As such, it constitutes a much needed course in multimodal
text transcription and analysis. It also suggests ways in which
multimodal discourse analysis can help both educators and students
understand how meaning is made in the e-learning environments that
now play such an important role in our lives. In both these
respects, readers are encouraged to use the book in conjunction
with an associated and freely accessible website which provides
many illustrations and exercises that further contextualise and
exemplify the insights and descriptions provided by the book. As
befits a coursebook, the individual chapters of the book are
carefully organised in such a way as to provide a step-by-step
progression in theoretical and descriptive complexity.
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