On the constitutional relevance of non‐discursive enlanguaged doings to sociomaterial practices

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ID21200945
AutoresRasmus Gahrn-Andersen (0000-0001-6142-6919, University of Southern Denmark, autor de correspondencia)
Año2024
Volumen15
Número5
Páginas661-681
Fecha de publicación2024-07-26
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPragmatics and Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1878-9714 • E-ISSN: 1878-9722
EditorialJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/ps.22037.gah
OpenAlexW4387814831
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas23

In expanding on the ‘dynamics first, symbols afterwards’ principle ( Cowley 2009 ) of Distributed Language research, I propose that embodied linguistic competencies comprise the prerequisite for human agents to engage in sociomaterial practices. I make the case that human practical activity is fundamentally ‘enlanguaged’ and that linguistic skills are not only trans-practical in the sense of enabling agents to engage in diverse activities across practices but also that they constitute the basis for adult skill acquisition (see Dreyfus and Dreyfus 1986 ) more generally. Specifically, I explore language-relative skills as the enablers of more diverse activities than what is prescribed to them by Saussurean linguistic tradition i.e., the denotative relations intrinsic to linguistic signs as well the rule-governed combinations of such signs into meaningful sentences

Epistemology · Political science · Sociology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Philosophy · Postmodernism in Literature and Education