Looking beyond language, out and into the world

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Looking beyond language, out and into the world

Elodie Oursel

To cite this version:

Elodie Oursel. Looking beyond language, out and into the world. Language as a Form of Action, Jun

2017, Rome, Italy. �hal-01727162�

L ooking beyond Language, Out and into the L orld

Logocentrism

Primacy granted to

(verbal) language in linguistics

Klages (1929/32) denounced the primacy of logos in

philosophy

Egocephalocentrism

« the belief in the almightiness of the individual who, by his/her own will, would have gotten rid of the hold of the whole »

Dubar (2001)

coined by sociologist J.-C. Kaufmann (2001)

Klages coins « Logocentrism » 1929/32

Bakhtin: fundamental intersubjectivity 1929

Mead: Social over individual in constr. of pers. 1934

Vygotsky: particip. of social env. in constr. of pers. 1934

Straus: give up logocentrism in the study of dialogue ... Armstrong: Belief, Truth & Knowledge , birth of externalism 1973

Hymes: SPEAKING model 1974

Mace: lectures « Don’t ask what’s inside your head, but what your head’s inside of » Gibson: cognitive ecology and « affordances » 1977 1977

Goldman coins « Internalism » 1980

Suchman: Plans & Situated actions , birth of situated action 1987

Varela, Thompson & Rosch: The Embodied Mind , birth of embodied cognition 1991

Maturana & Varela: Autopoïesis & Cognition , birth of enaction 1980

Hutchins: Cognition in the Wild , birth of distributed cognition 1995

Kaufmann coins « Egocephalocentrism » 2001

Scollon: Mediated Discourse, The Nexus of Practice , birth of mediated discourse 2001

Brassac applies non-egocephalocentrism to dialogue analysis 2001

Paveau: Une linguistique symétrique pour penser le discours, birth of symetric linguistics 2010

Oursel applies non logocentrism & non egocephalocentrism to the study of the listening skill 2013

Internal factors that justify knowledge:

- scientific method - scientific discourse - scient. community - pre-existing vali-

dated knowledge

Cognition viewed as:

the capacities of the central ner- vous system of an individual or of a material system

Inte rna lism

The main principles

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Communication Communication Communication is used to

is used to is used to

represent the world.

represent the world.

represent the world.

Communication is Communication is Communication is one of many ressources one of many ressources one of many ressources

available to humanity available to humanity available to humanity to live and act together. to live and act together.

to live and act together.

Meaning = text + context

Exter

nalis m

External factor justify knowled s that ge:

- mentalities - communities - rela tions of for ce

and d omina nce

+ i nt erna l fac tor s

Co gn iti on vi ew ed a s:

an emb odied,

soci al, r elational ,

and ex trinsi c phenomenon Results from the historic

al interaction s betw.

an emb

odied ner

vous sy stem and a soc

ial & mat

eria l envir onm ent

wo rld rela

tio ns structure

Logocen trism Egoceph alocentr ism

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