Joanna Rączaszek-Leonardi
Biographic Data
| ID | 1356639 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joanna Rączaszek-Leonardi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joanna |
| FAMILY NAME | Rączaszek-Leonardi |
| SIGNATURE | RĄCZASZEK-LEONARDI J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warsaw |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3243-1468 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ecologies of language, communication, and development
Time-to-smile, time-to-speak, time-to-resolve
This paper is a further step toward the construction of an ecologically valid framework for the emergence of symbolic communication in development. Building on recent advancements, which view language learning in terms of the increasingly skillful usage and navigation of interactive affordances within a re-enacted social world, we present a more detailed investigation of the timing of such affordances and the role of that timing in the progressiv…
Language Development From an Ecological Perspective
In the embodied, situated, enacted and distributed approaches to cognition, the coordinative role of language comes to the fore. Language, with its symbolic properties, arises from a multimodal stream of interactive events and gradually gains power to constrain them in a functional and adaptive way. In this article, we attempt to integrate three approaches to information in cognitive systems to provide a theoretical background to the process of d…
What Makes Us More Egocentric in Communication? The Role of Referent Features and Individual Differences
The perspective-adjustment model of language interpretation assumes an initial egocentric stage in comprehension that is only later adjusted to the interlocutor's perspective. Moreover, substantial processing resources are involved in perspective-taking. However, many experiments in the perspective-adjustment framework do not control for visual salience and semantic typicality of referents. We conducted a referential task experiment focusing on s…
A Phase Transition in Theories of Speech
This article is a metalogue tracing one of Carol Fowler's theoretical contributions to understanding speech perception and, more broadly, cognition. Metalogues, a term coined by Bateson (1972 Bateson, G. (1972). Steps to an ecology of mind: Collected essays in anthropology, psychiatry, evolution, and epistemology. San Francisco, CA: Chandler. [Google Scholar]), are conversations in which the content is illustrated by the structure. Similarly in t…
Nie całkiem obce. Zapożyczenia wyrazowe w języku polskim i czeskim
Książka traktuje o wyrazach zapożyczonych, dowodzących istnienia kontaktów kulturowych ponad granicami krajów i języków, czyli takich, które nie zostały odziedziczone przez dany język po jego ewolucyjnym przodku - np. przez język polski po prasłowiańskim
Dialog as interpersonal synergy
Diagrammatic reasoning
Many types of everyday and specialized reasoning depend on diagrams: we use maps to find our way, we draw graphs and sketches to communicate concepts and prove geometrical theorems, and we manipulate diagrams to explore new creative solutions to problems. The active involvement and manipulation of representational artifacts for purposes of thinking and communicating is discussed in relation to C.S. Peirce’s notion of diagrammatical reasoning . We…
Pooling the ground
Common ground is most often understood as the sum of mutually known beliefs, knowledge and suppositions among the participants in a conversation. It explains why participants do not mention things that should be obvious to both. In some accounts of communication, reaching a mutual understanding, i.e., broadening the common ground, is posed as the ultimate goal of linguistic interactions. Yet, congruent with the more pragmatic views of linguistic …
Types of Integration in a Theory of Language
In the face of the complexity of language as an object of study, it becomes crucial for researchers who investigate its various facets to communicate and to understand each-others’ terminology, methods and results. The feasibility and utility of striving for the elegance of formal models of isolated aspects of the linguistic system (for example, set of generative rules in an individual’s head) are called into question: a theory of language needs …
Multiple Time-Scales of Language Dynamics
Linguistic forms are sustained by and, in turn, harness rich dynamics. Dynamical events, important for language, span timescales from milliseconds of brain activity to hundreds of milliseconds of individual cognitive processing, seconds and minutes of interaction, months and years of language acquisition, and hundreds of years of cultural language evolution. These events involve levels ranging from an individual brain, to dyads, to groups, to pop…
The influence of sentential context and frequency of occurrence on the recognition of words with scrambled letters
The influence of sentential context and frequency of occurrence on the recognition of words with scrambled letters In this paper we examine the "jumbled words" effect which denotes human ability to easily read words whose internal letters have been re-arranged as long as external letters remain in their positions. Hitherto, many explanations for this effect have focussed on the processes that operate "bottom-up". Here we suggest that "top-down" p…
Symbols as constraints
The paper draws a parallel between natural language symbols and the symbolic mode in living systems. The inextricability of symbols and the dynamics with which they are functionally related shows that much of their structuring is due to dynamics and self-organization. It is also stressed that important factors that determine the shape of language structure lie outside individual mind/brains and they draw on time-scales quite different from those …
Activating Basic Category Exemplars in Sentence Contexts
Time-to-smile, time-to-speak, time-to-resolve
This paper is a further step toward the construction of an ecologically valid framework for the emergence of symbolic communication in development. Building on recent advancements, which view language learning in terms of the increasingly skillful usage and navigation of interactive affordances within a re-enacted social world, we present a more detailed investigation of the timing of such affordances and the role of that timing in the progressiv…
Pooling the ground
Common ground is most often understood as the sum of mutually known beliefs, knowledge and suppositions among the participants in a conversation. It explains why participants do not mention things that should be obvious to both. In some accounts of communication, reaching a mutual understanding, i.e., broadening the common ground, is posed as the ultimate goal of linguistic interactions. Yet, congruent with the more pragmatic views of linguistic …
Activating Basic Category Exemplars in Sentence Contexts
Activating Basic Category Exemplars in Sentence Contexts
The influence of sentential context and frequency of occurrence on the recognition of words with scrambled letters
The influence of sentential context and frequency of occurrence on the recognition of words with scrambled letters In this paper we examine the "jumbled words" effect which denotes human ability to easily read words whose internal letters have been re-arranged as long as external letters remain in their positions. Hitherto, many explanations for this effect have focussed on the processes that operate "bottom-up". Here we suggest that "top-down" p…
Symbols as constraints
The paper draws a parallel between natural language symbols and the symbolic mode in living systems. The inextricability of symbols and the dynamics with which they are functionally related shows that much of their structuring is due to dynamics and self-organization. It is also stressed that important factors that determine the shape of language structure lie outside individual mind/brains and they draw on time-scales quite different from those …
Multiple Time-Scales of Language Dynamics
Linguistic forms are sustained by and, in turn, harness rich dynamics. Dynamical events, important for language, span timescales from milliseconds of brain activity to hundreds of milliseconds of individual cognitive processing, seconds and minutes of interaction, months and years of language acquisition, and hundreds of years of cultural language evolution. These events involve levels ranging from an individual brain, to dyads, to groups, to pop…
Types of Integration in a Theory of Language
In the face of the complexity of language as an object of study, it becomes crucial for researchers who investigate its various facets to communicate and to understand each-others’ terminology, methods and results. The feasibility and utility of striving for the elegance of formal models of isolated aspects of the linguistic system (for example, set of generative rules in an individual’s head) are called into question: a theory of language needs …
Dialog as interpersonal synergy
Diagrammatic reasoning
Many types of everyday and specialized reasoning depend on diagrams: we use maps to find our way, we draw graphs and sketches to communicate concepts and prove geometrical theorems, and we manipulate diagrams to explore new creative solutions to problems. The active involvement and manipulation of representational artifacts for purposes of thinking and communicating is discussed in relation to C.S. Peirce’s notion of diagrammatical reasoning . We…
Pooling the ground
Common ground is most often understood as the sum of mutually known beliefs, knowledge and suppositions among the participants in a conversation. It explains why participants do not mention things that should be obvious to both. In some accounts of communication, reaching a mutual understanding, i.e., broadening the common ground, is posed as the ultimate goal of linguistic interactions. Yet, congruent with the more pragmatic views of linguistic …
A Phase Transition in Theories of Speech
This article is a metalogue tracing one of Carol Fowler's theoretical contributions to understanding speech perception and, more broadly, cognition. Metalogues, a term coined by Bateson (1972 Bateson, G. (1972). Steps to an ecology of mind: Collected essays in anthropology, psychiatry, evolution, and epistemology. San Francisco, CA: Chandler. [Google Scholar]), are conversations in which the content is illustrated by the structure. Similarly in t…
Nie całkiem obce. Zapożyczenia wyrazowe w języku polskim i czeskim
Książka traktuje o wyrazach zapożyczonych, dowodzących istnienia kontaktów kulturowych ponad granicami krajów i języków, czyli takich, które nie zostały odziedziczone przez dany język po jego ewolucyjnym przodku - np. przez język polski po prasłowiańskim
Language Development From an Ecological Perspective
In the embodied, situated, enacted and distributed approaches to cognition, the coordinative role of language comes to the fore. Language, with its symbolic properties, arises from a multimodal stream of interactive events and gradually gains power to constrain them in a functional and adaptive way. In this article, we attempt to integrate three approaches to information in cognitive systems to provide a theoretical background to the process of d…
What Makes Us More Egocentric in Communication? The Role of Referent Features and Individual Differences
The perspective-adjustment model of language interpretation assumes an initial egocentric stage in comprehension that is only later adjusted to the interlocutor's perspective. Moreover, substantial processing resources are involved in perspective-taking. However, many experiments in the perspective-adjustment framework do not control for visual salience and semantic typicality of referents. We conducted a referential task experiment focusing on s…
Time-to-smile, time-to-speak, time-to-resolve
This paper is a further step toward the construction of an ecologically valid framework for the emergence of symbolic communication in development. Building on recent advancements, which view language learning in terms of the increasingly skillful usage and navigation of interactive affordances within a re-enacted social world, we present a more detailed investigation of the timing of such affordances and the role of that timing in the progressiv…
Ecologies of language, communication, and development
Computer Science (11 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Artificial Intelligence (8 works) · Language and cultural evolution (8 works) · Cognitive science (7 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Cognitive psychology (5 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (5 works) · Cognition (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works)