Coding and Transferring or Actions and Interactions? An Alternative Approach to Understanding Language

• Authors: Grzegorczyk Grzegorz
• Conference: Przekraczanie granic w języku, literaturze, kulturze
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article undertakes the new emerging perspective of language as a dynamic form of activity between interacting human agents and redefines it as “an activity in which wordings play a part” (Cowley). Drawing on the views of Maturana, Bottineau, Harris, Thibault, Cowley and others, the author situates the concept of language in the vast field of ecology, agency and interactivity. Language thus conceived is not a code-like denotational structure but an aspect of sense-saturated communicative coordination and a result of human actions and co-actions. On this view we describe a conversation as an unfolding process of two or more interactants entering the cognitive dynamics which allows them to connect to each other and to their environments thus pursuing their individual and shared goals. This can be referred to as sense-making through dialogicality.

PL

Niniejszy tekst proponuje przyjęcie nowej perspektywy na język jako dynamiczną formę działania zachodzącego pomiędzy jednostkami ludzkimi, czyli jako „czynność, w której swoją rolę odgrywają elementy słowne [wordings]” (Cowley). W tym ujęciu język przestaje być denotacyjną strukturą o charakterze kodu, ale aspektem sensopełnej [sense-saturated] koordynacji komunikacyjnej powstającej na gruncie ludzkich (współ)działań. Korzystając z badań Maturany, Bottineau, Harrisa, Thibaulta, Cowleya i innych, autor umieszcza język w dyskusji na polu ekologii, sprawczości i interakcyjności [interactivity]. W rozmowie następuje wejście dwojga osób w taki rodzaj dynamiki poznawczej, który pozwala im łączyć się ze sobą nawzajem oraz ze swoim środowiskiem w procesie realizacji własnych i wspólnych celów, co można nazwać dialogiczną sensotwórczością.

Keywords

EN

language; dialogicality; interactivity; co-action; distributed perspective; embodiment

PL

język;; dialogiczność;; interakcyjność;; współdziałanie;; perspektywa rozproszona; ucieleśnienie

• Publisher: Uczelnia Lingwistyczno-Techniczna w Świeciu
• Journal: humanistica 21
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 1
• Pages: 17-40

Contributors

author

Grzegorczyk Grzegorz

• Instytut Lingwistyki Stosowanej i Translatoryki Uniwersytet Gdański

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