Agency

A figment of reality

Datos Bibliográficos

ID22342156
AutoresWolfgang Teubert (0000-0003-2187-7381, University of Birmingham, autor de correspondencia)
Año2017
Volumen7
Número2
Páginas253-276
Fecha de publicación2017-10-27
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLanguage and Dialogue (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2210-4119 • E-ISSN: 2210-4127
EditorialJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/ld.7.2.06teu
OpenAlexW2765840091
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas20

Am I responsible for what I say and how I say it? Or is what I say just a random transformation of what I have heard so far? Is my agency as a discourse participant perhaps borrowed from the agency of discourse? This ties in with another dimension: Is the reality confronting us, a reality that surely includes the notion of agency, a mere discourse construct? For the cognitive and neural sciences, individual agency is only an epiphenomenon of the real world, while it is endorsed by folk psychology and cultural anthropology, having long been a cherished tradition of western discourse. Obviously, selfhood in some form is part of our nature, though we only have discourse to talk about it. Thus it appears as a phenomenon of our contingent culture

Discourse analysis · Epiphenomenon · Epistemology · Linguistics · Phenomenon · Political science · Politics · Public discourse · Social science · Sociology · Action Observation and Synchronization · Embodied and Extended Cognition · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Law · Philosophy