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From ‘psycholinguistics’ to the study of distributed sense-making : Psychological reality revisited (2024)

Dufva, H. (2024). From ‘psycholinguistics’ to the study of distributed sense-making : Psychological reality revisited. Language Sciences, 103, Article 101627. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2024.101627

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Publication details

All authors or editors: Dufva, Hannele

Journal or series: Language Sciences

ISSN: 0388-0001

eISSN: 1873-5746

Publication year: 2024

Publication date: 29/02/2024

Volume: 103

Article number: 101627

Publisher: Elsevier

Publication country: United Kingdom

Publication language: English

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2024.101627

Publication open access: Openly available

Publication channel open access: Partially open access channel

Publication is parallel published (JYX): https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/93843

Abstract

The paper discusses the ‘psychological reality’ of human languaging. Basing on the dialogical and distributed arguments, the point of departure is in observations of the actualities of languaging in different modalities and environments. Arguing against the psychological reality of ‘mental grammars’ as storages of internal rules and representations, the concept of decontextual and amodal language knowledge is replaced by a know-how that is associated both with the modality and indexicality of usages. Further, instead of a ‘grammar’, the reservoir of agentive knowledge is approached as a personal repertoire that is discussed, using the concept of timescales, as an assemblage that develops during the agent's personal trajectory, but that at the same time is made possible by developments over cultural-historical and evolutionary timescales. The discussion is associated particularly with the field of applied linguistics, and aims at offering new theoretical arguments for the research on language learning and teaching.

Keywords: language learning; sociocultural factors; linguistic interaction; dialogicality; bodiliness; human agency; psycholinguistics; applied linguistics

Free keywords: psychological reality; dialogism; distributed language and cognition

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