What sort of minded being has language? Anticpatory dynamics, arguability and agency in a normatively and recursively self-transforming learning system
Part 2
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https://doi.org/10.1558/lhs.2005.1.3.355Keywords:
affordance, agent, anticipatory dynamics, discourse, cognitionAbstract
Part 2 is a direct continuation of Part 1, which was published in Linguistics and the Human Sciences (2005) Volume 1(2). The numbering of the sections and the figures and tables continues directly from Part 1. The two parts should therefore be read as a single overall article. In Part 2, I consider some specific instances of learning system involving humans and bonobos in relation to the theoretical issues discussed in Part 1. In Part 2, the implications of the systemic-functional theory of language for a unified view of cognition and semiosis as distributed activity on diverse time-scales are further discussed in the light of the issues that are discussed above.
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Thibault, P. J. (2000) The dialogical integration of the brain in social semiosis: Edelman and the case for downward causation. Mind, Culture, and Activity 7(4): 291–311.
Thibault, P. J. (2002) Interpersonal meaning and the discursive construction of action, attitudes and values: the Global Modal Program of one text. In P. Fries, M. Cummings, D. Lockwood, and W. Spruiell (eds) Relations and Functions Within and Around Language 56–116. London and New York: Continuum.
Thibault, P. J. (2004a) Agency and Consciousness in Discourse: self-other dynamics as a complex system. London and New York: Continuum.
Thibault, P. J. (2004b) Brain, Mind, and the Signifying Body: an ecosocial semiotic theory. London and New York: Continuum.
Thibault, P. J. (2004c) Agency, individuation, and meaning-making: reflections on an episode of bonobo-human interaction. In G. Williams and A. Lukin (eds) Language Development: functional perspectives on evolution and ontogenesis 108–32. London and New York: Continuum.
Thibault, P. J. (2005a) Brains, bodies, contextualizing activity and language: do humans (and bonobos) have a language faculty, and can they do without one? Linguistics and the Human Sciences 1(1): 101–28.
Thibault, P. J. (2005b) The interpersonal gateway to the meaning of mind: unifying the inter- and intra-organism perspectives on language. In R. Hasan, C. M. I. M. Matthiessen, and J. J. Webster (eds) Continuing Discourse on Language: a functional perspective, Vol 1. London: Equinox.
Thibault, P. J. and van Leeuwen, T. (1996) Grammar, society, and the speech act: renewing the connections. Journal of Pragmatics 25: 561–85.
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Uexküll, J. von (1982) The theory of meaning. Semiotica 42(1): 25–82.
Vygotsky, L. [1934] (1986) Thought and Language. (Translated by A. Kozulin.) Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press.
Weigand, E. (2004) Empirical data and theoretical models. Pragmatics & Cognition 12(2): 375–88.
Ziemke, T. (1999) Rethinking grounding. In A. Riegler, M. Peschl, and A. von Stein (eds) Understanding Representation in the Cognitive Sciences 177–90. New York: Plenum Press.
Baldry, A. P. (2005) Children’s use and awareness of genre: A case study of the evolution from multimodal transcription to multimodal concordancing based on system networks. In C. Taylor Torsello, M. Gotti and C. Taylor (eds) I Centri Linguistici: approcci, progetti e strumenti per l’apprendimento e la valutazione. Atti del 3° convegno nazionale AICLU, 423–42. Trieste: EUT.
Baldry, A. P., Bolognesi, R., Piastra, M. (1994) Retraction with face saving: modeling conversational interaction through dynamic hypermedia. Alt-J, Association for Learning Technology Journal 2(2): 27–37.
Benson, J. (2002) Bonobo-human discourse: where does Kanzi’s ‘bad surprise’ come from? In C. Tatilon and A. Baudot (eds) La Linguistique fonctionnelle au tournant du siècle 201–6. Toronto: Éditions du GREF.
Benson, J., Greaves, W., O’Donnell, M. and Taglialatela, J. (2002) Evidence for symbolic language processing in a bonobo (Pan paniscus). Journal of Consciousness Studies 9(12): 33–56.
Benson, J. and Greaves, W. (eds) (2005) Functional Dimensions of Ape-Human Discourse. London and New York: Equinox.
Bickhard, M. H. (2005) Function, anticipation, representation. Retrieved from http:// www.lehigh.edu/~mhb0/mhb0.html March 2005.
Bråten, S. (1992) The virtual other in infants’ minds and social feelings. In A. Heen Wold (ed.) The Dialogical Alternative: towards a theory of language and mind 77–97. Oslo: Scandinavian University Press.
Bråten, S. (1998) Intersubjective communion and understanding: development and perturbation. In S. Bråten (ed.) Intersubjective Communication and Emotion in Early Ontogeny 372–82. Cambridge and Paris: Cambridge University Press and Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme.
Bråten, S. (2002) Altercentric perception by infants and adults in dialogue: Ego’s virtual participation in Alter’s complementary act. In M. I. Stamenov and V. Gallese (eds) Mirror Neurons and the Evolution of Brain and Language 273–94. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Brazil, D. (1981) Intonation. In R. M. Coulthard and M. M. Montgomery (eds) Studies in Discourse Analysis, 39–70. London: Routledge.
Clark, A. (1997) Being There: putting brain, body and world together again. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
Clark, A. (2001a) Where brain, body, and world collide. In G. M. Edelman and J. Changeux (eds) The Brain 257–80. New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers.
Clark, A. (2001b) Reasons, robots and the extended mind. Mind & Language 16(2): 121–45.
Cowley, S. J. (1994) Conversational functions of rhythmical patterning: a behavioural perspective. Language & Communication 14(4): 353–76.
Cowley, S. J. (1997) Conversation, coordination, and vertebrate communication. Semiotica 115(1/2): 27–52.
Cowley, S. J. (1998) Of timing, turn-taking, and conversations. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 27(5): 541–71.
Cowley, S. J. (2005) Languaging: how babies and bonobos lock onto human modes of life. International Journal of Computational Cognition 3(1): 44–56.
Damasio, A. [1994] (1996) Descartes’ Error: emotion, reason and the human brain. London and Oxford: Macmillan Papermac.
Damasio, A. (2000) The Feeling of What Happens: body, emotion and the making of consciousness. London: William Heinemann.
Davidse, K. (1997) The Subject-Object versus the Agent-Patient asymmetry. Paper presented at the congress ‘Objects, grammatical relations and semantics’, University of Gent, 23–24 May 1997.
Ellis, J. (1971) The definite article in translation between English and Twi. In M. Houis (ed.) Actes du Huitième Congrès de la Societié Linguistique de l’Afrique Occidentale 1969 Vol. 1, 367–80. Abidjan.
Gibson, J. J. [1966] (1983) The Senses Considered as Perceptual Systems. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press.
Gibson, J. J. [1979] (1986) The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception. Hillsdale, NJ and London: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Habermas, J. [1976] (1979) Communication and the Evolution of Society. (Translated by Thomas McCarthy.) London and Melbourne: Heinemann.
Halliday, M. A. K. (1979) Modes of meaning and modes of expression: types of grammatical structure and their determination by different semantic functions. In D. J. Allerton, E. Carney and D. Holdcroft (eds) Function and Context in Linguistic Analysis: a Festschrift for William Haas 57–79. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Halliday, M. A. K. [1985] (1994) Introduction to Functional Grammar. (Second edition.) London and Melbourne: Arnold.
Halliday, M. A. K. [1984] (2004) The complete ‘Nigel Transcipts’. In J. J. Webster (ed.) The Language of Early Childhood, Volume 4 in the Collected Works of M. A. K. Halliday. (CD supplement.) London and New York: Continuum.
Halliday, M. A. K. and Matthiessen, C. M. I. M. (2004) Introduction to Functional Grammar. (Third edition.) London and New York: Arnold.
Harris, R. (1981) The Language Myth. London: Duckworth.
Hasan, R. (1992a) Rationality in everyday talk: from process to system. In J. Svartik (ed.) Directions in Corpus Linguistics: Proceedings of Nobel Symposium 82 Stockholm 257–307, 4–8 August 1991. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
Hasan, R. (1992b) Speech genre, semiotic mediation and the development of the higher mental functions. Language Sciences 14(4): 489–528.
Hoey, M. (2001) Textual Interaction: an introduction to written discourse analysis. London and New York: Routledge.
Langacker, R. W. (1991) Foundations of Cognitive Grammar. Volume II. Descriptive application. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Lemke, J. L. (2000) Across the scales of time: artefacts, activities, and meanings in ecosocial systems. Mind, Culture, and Activity 7(4): 273–90.
Martin, J. R. (1992) English Text: System and structure. Philadelphia/Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Merleau-Ponty, M. [1942] (1963) The Structure of Behavior. (Translated by A. L. Fisher.) Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press.
Peng, F. C. C. (2003) The anthropology of language disorders: a first approximation. Lingua Posnaniensis XLV: 39–62.
Piastra, M. and Lombardi, L. (2000) The HyperContext Web project: dynamic authoring for distance learning. In A. P. Baldry (ed.) Multimodality and multimediality in the distance learning age, Campobasso, Palladino Editore, 247–62.
Thibault, P. J. (1999) Communicating and interpreting relevance through discourse negotiation: an alternative to relevance theory. Journal of Pragmatics 31: 557–94.
Thibault, P. J. (2000) The dialogical integration of the brain in social semiosis: Edelman and the case for downward causation. Mind, Culture, and Activity 7(4): 291–311.
Thibault, P. J. (2002) Interpersonal meaning and the discursive construction of action, attitudes and values: the Global Modal Program of one text. In P. Fries, M. Cummings, D. Lockwood, and W. Spruiell (eds) Relations and Functions Within and Around Language 56–116. London and New York: Continuum.
Thibault, P. J. (2004a) Agency and Consciousness in Discourse: self-other dynamics as a complex system. London and New York: Continuum.
Thibault, P. J. (2004b) Brain, Mind, and the Signifying Body: an ecosocial semiotic theory. London and New York: Continuum.
Thibault, P. J. (2004c) Agency, individuation, and meaning-making: reflections on an episode of bonobo-human interaction. In G. Williams and A. Lukin (eds) Language Development: functional perspectives on evolution and ontogenesis 108–32. London and New York: Continuum.
Thibault, P. J. (2005a) Brains, bodies, contextualizing activity and language: do humans (and bonobos) have a language faculty, and can they do without one? Linguistics and the Human Sciences 1(1): 101–28.
Thibault, P. J. (2005b) The interpersonal gateway to the meaning of mind: unifying the inter- and intra-organism perspectives on language. In R. Hasan, C. M. I. M. Matthiessen, and J. J. Webster (eds) Continuing Discourse on Language: a functional perspective, Vol 1. London: Equinox.
Thibault, P. J. and van Leeuwen, T. (1996) Grammar, society, and the speech act: renewing the connections. Journal of Pragmatics 25: 561–85.
Uexküll, J. von (1909) Umwelt und Innenwelt der Tiere. Berlin: Verlag von Julius Springer.
Uexküll, J. von (1982) The theory of meaning. Semiotica 42(1): 25–82.
Vygotsky, L. [1934] (1986) Thought and Language. (Translated by A. Kozulin.) Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press.
Weigand, E. (2004) Empirical data and theoretical models. Pragmatics & Cognition 12(2): 375–88.
Ziemke, T. (1999) Rethinking grounding. In A. Riegler, M. Peschl, and A. von Stein (eds) Understanding Representation in the Cognitive Sciences 177–90. New York: Plenum Press.
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Thibault, P. J. (2007). What sort of minded being has language? Anticpatory dynamics, arguability and agency in a normatively and recursively self-transforming learning system: Part 2. Linguistics and the Human Sciences, 1(3), 355-401. https://doi.org/10.1558/lhs.2005.1.3.355
