Paul J Thibault
Biographic Data
| ID | 3692556 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul J Thibault |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul J |
| FAMILY NAME | Thibault |
| SIGNATURE | THIBAULT P J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Agder |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5482-5153 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Exploring Dynamic Assessment of Writing: The Loop Pedagogy from an Ecological-Languaging-Competencies (ELC) Lens
This study explored dynamic assessment (DA) of writing in a linguistically and culturally diverse context. Drawing on conceptualizations of DA and ecological languaging competencies (ELC), an ELC-based Loop Pedagogy was designed and adapted in a primary English language teaching (ELT) classroom aiming to foster ongoing development of a dynamic, dialogic, and differentiated assessment approach. A mixed methods research design was adopted with data…
Language, languaging, communication: Linguistic norms and communicative competencies
Linguistic norms and meta-norms involve reward and punishment, which typically take the form of emotional-moral judgments of praise and blame, respectively. The intensity of the “drive for cooperation and a drive to serve punishments” (Damasio, A. 2005. The neurobiological grounding of human values. In J.-P. Changeux, A. R. Damasio, W. Singer & Y. Christian (eds.), Neurobiology of human values , 47–56. Springer Verlag) is functional in maintainin…
Languaging, human projects, selves, and societies of selves
Focusing on the self as a normative construct, I consider how and why the self, not the group, is ontologically fundamental. Selves live in communities or societies of selves. The intrinsic normativity of the self and the actions the self performs constitute the grounds on which people fashion coherent narratives about themselves and seek to display themselves to others in ways that conform to their narratives. People bond with, care for, and inv…
Languaging dynamics of classroom interactivity: A distributed view of the pedagogic recontextualization in L2 tertiary settings
The current study investigates classroom interactivity in L2 tertiary literature classrooms in Hong Kong and Taiwan when ESL/EFL students engage with and interpret literary texts in classroom talk as a pedagogic process of text recontextualization. It proposes a more ecological-based approach to language and languaging dynamics that is complementary to current social semiotic approaches to multimodality. It also aims to open up a more embodied an…
Selves, interactive representations and context: A systemic functional linguistic account of process in language and world
In this paper, I re-examine the notion of ‘clause-as-representation’ in Michael Halliday’s systemic functional theory of language. I argue that ‘representation’ is a mode of linguistic action that cannot be understood in terms of the experiential metafunction alone. Instead, a theoretical account of representation must be undertaken in relation to all the metafunctions. Rejecting encodingist accounts of representation, I develop the argument that…
Integrating self, voice, experience: Some thoughts on Harris’s idea of self communication and its relevance to a dialogical account of languaging
The experience of hearing one’s own voice during the act of speaking is a form of self-awareness and self-reflection that occurs in relation to and in interaction with the flow of experience, including the experience of other selves and their voices. Self-communication is deeply implicated in and necessary for interpersonal communication ( Harris 1996 ). And yet, it is the latter which is generally taken to be the paradigm case of human languagin…
First-Order Languaging Dynamics and Second-Order Language: The Distributed Language View
This article articulates some aspects of an emerging perspective shift on language: the distributed view. According to this view, languaging behavior and its organization is irreducible to the formal abstracta that have characterized the focus on a de Saussure-type system of formal regularities in mainstream linguistics over the past century. Language, in the distributed view, is a radically heterogeneous phenomenon that is spread across diverse …
Languaging Behaviour as Catalytic Process: Steps Towards a Theory of Living Language (Part II)
No abstract
Face-to-face communication and body language
Brain, Mind and the Signifying Body: An Ecosocial Semiotic Theory
Foreword by M. A. K. Halliday Preface 1. Introduction 2. Sensori-Motor Activity, Movement, and Social Meaning-Making 3. Body Dynamics, Meaning-Making, and Scale Heterogeneity 4. The Semiotic Basis of Consciousness 5. The Metafunctional Character of Consciousness 6. Brain, Meaning, and Consciousness
The Dialogical Integration of the Brain in Social Semiosis: Edelman and the Case for Downward Causation
Communicating and interpreting relevance through discourse negotiation: An alternative to relevance theory — A reply to Franken
Textual Politics: Discourse and Social Dynamics (Book)
Grammar, society, and the speech act: Renewing the connections
Using Language to Think Interpersonally: Experiential Meaning and the Cryptogrammar of Subjectivity and Agency in English
Grammar, society, and the speech act: Renewing the connections
Languaging Behaviour as Catalytic Process: Steps Towards a Theory of Living Language (Part II)
No abstract
Communicating and interpreting relevance through discourse negotiation: An alternative to relevance theory — A reply to Franken
Textual Politics: Discourse and Social Dynamics (Book)
Using Language to Think Interpersonally: Experiential Meaning and the Cryptogrammar of Subjectivity and Agency in English
Using Language to Think Interpersonally: Experiential Meaning and the Cryptogrammar of Subjectivity and Agency in English
Grammar, society, and the speech act: Renewing the connections
Textual Politics: Discourse and Social Dynamics (Book)
Communicating and interpreting relevance through discourse negotiation: An alternative to relevance theory — A reply to Franken
The Dialogical Integration of the Brain in Social Semiosis: Edelman and the Case for Downward Causation
Brain, Mind and the Signifying Body: An Ecosocial Semiotic Theory
Foreword by M. A. K. Halliday Preface 1. Introduction 2. Sensori-Motor Activity, Movement, and Social Meaning-Making 3. Body Dynamics, Meaning-Making, and Scale Heterogeneity 4. The Semiotic Basis of Consciousness 5. The Metafunctional Character of Consciousness 6. Brain, Meaning, and Consciousness
Face-to-face communication and body language
First-Order Languaging Dynamics and Second-Order Language: The Distributed Language View
This article articulates some aspects of an emerging perspective shift on language: the distributed view. According to this view, languaging behavior and its organization is irreducible to the formal abstracta that have characterized the focus on a de Saussure-type system of formal regularities in mainstream linguistics over the past century. Language, in the distributed view, is a radically heterogeneous phenomenon that is spread across diverse …
Languaging Behaviour as Catalytic Process: Steps Towards a Theory of Living Language (Part II)
No abstract
Integrating self, voice, experience: Some thoughts on Harris’s idea of self communication and its relevance to a dialogical account of languaging
The experience of hearing one’s own voice during the act of speaking is a form of self-awareness and self-reflection that occurs in relation to and in interaction with the flow of experience, including the experience of other selves and their voices. Self-communication is deeply implicated in and necessary for interpersonal communication ( Harris 1996 ). And yet, it is the latter which is generally taken to be the paradigm case of human languagin…
Selves, interactive representations and context: A systemic functional linguistic account of process in language and world
In this paper, I re-examine the notion of ‘clause-as-representation’ in Michael Halliday’s systemic functional theory of language. I argue that ‘representation’ is a mode of linguistic action that cannot be understood in terms of the experiential metafunction alone. Instead, a theoretical account of representation must be undertaken in relation to all the metafunctions. Rejecting encodingist accounts of representation, I develop the argument that…
Languaging dynamics of classroom interactivity: A distributed view of the pedagogic recontextualization in L2 tertiary settings
The current study investigates classroom interactivity in L2 tertiary literature classrooms in Hong Kong and Taiwan when ESL/EFL students engage with and interpret literary texts in classroom talk as a pedagogic process of text recontextualization. It proposes a more ecological-based approach to language and languaging dynamics that is complementary to current social semiotic approaches to multimodality. It also aims to open up a more embodied an…
Languaging, human projects, selves, and societies of selves
Focusing on the self as a normative construct, I consider how and why the self, not the group, is ontologically fundamental. Selves live in communities or societies of selves. The intrinsic normativity of the self and the actions the self performs constitute the grounds on which people fashion coherent narratives about themselves and seek to display themselves to others in ways that conform to their narratives. People bond with, care for, and inv…
Exploring Dynamic Assessment of Writing: The Loop Pedagogy from an Ecological-Languaging-Competencies (ELC) Lens
This study explored dynamic assessment (DA) of writing in a linguistically and culturally diverse context. Drawing on conceptualizations of DA and ecological languaging competencies (ELC), an ELC-based Loop Pedagogy was designed and adapted in a primary English language teaching (ELT) classroom aiming to foster ongoing development of a dynamic, dialogic, and differentiated assessment approach. A mixed methods research design was adopted with data…
Language, languaging, communication: Linguistic norms and communicative competencies
Linguistic norms and meta-norms involve reward and punishment, which typically take the form of emotional-moral judgments of praise and blame, respectively. The intensity of the “drive for cooperation and a drive to serve punishments” (Damasio, A. 2005. The neurobiological grounding of human values. In J.-P. Changeux, A. R. Damasio, W. Singer & Y. Christian (eds.), Neurobiology of human values , 47–56. Springer Verlag) is functional in maintainin…
Philosophy (11 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Linguistics (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (6 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (5 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)