Commentary
Using ‘Use’: Pragmatic Consequences of the Metaphor of Culture as Resources
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7739784 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C Cornejo (0000-0001-5426-0025, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 63-72 |
| Publication date | 2010-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Culture & Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1354-067X • E-ISSN: 1461-7056 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1354067x09346311 |
| OpenAlex | W2020513323 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 7 |
In this essay I comment on the paper by Gillespie and Zittoun (2009). I argue that the metaphor of culture as a set of resources entails that there be an agent with a certain purpose, whose action converts something into an instrument. In this sense, the metaphor is cryptointentionalist. This arises from the fact that every use of a cultural resource is an action, that is, something done with intention. I also argue that being aware of this intention is part of the basic condition for understanding human action. I analyze the problems of cultural psychology in adopting intentionalist terminology, showing that this rests on the inclusion of a dyadic conception of meaning for a considerable part of the field. In contrast, the adoption of a triadic conception of meaning—e.g., C.S. Peirce’s semiotics—avoids the difficulties of integrating social meaning with personal intentionality. I question Vygotsky’s inherited sign/tool distinction, arguing that it poses a problem for the analysis offered by Gillespie and Zittoun. Finally, I recommend making an explicit connection between phenomenological descriptions of human action and the culture-psychological concepts concerning the internalization of cultural resources
Action (physics · Cognitive science · Epistemology · Intentionality · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Metaphor · Semiotics · Set (abstract data type · Sign (mathematics · Sociology · Terminology · Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Representations and Identity
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,36 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2021 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |