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Dancing with Alternative Lyrics : Integrating Sociocultural, Dialogical, Distributed and Dynamical Conceptualization of Language and its Development for L2 Studies (2016)

Karimi Aghdam, S., Dufva, H., & Lähteenmäki, M. (2016). Dancing with Alternative Lyrics : Integrating Sociocultural, Dialogical, Distributed and Dynamical Conceptualization of Language and its Development for L2 Studies. In A. Solin, J. Vaattovaara, N. Hynninen, U. Tiililä, & T. Nordlund (Eds.), Kielenkäyttäjä muuttuvissa instituutioissa (pp. 163-183). Suomen soveltavan kielitieteen yhdistys. AFinLAn vuosikirja, 2016. https://journal.fi/afinlavk/article/view/59725

JYU authors or editors

Publication details

All authors or editors: Karimi Aghdam, Saeed; Dufva, Hannele; Lähteenmäki, Mika

Parent publication: Kielenkäyttäjä muuttuvissa instituutioissa

Parent publication editors: Solin, Anna; Vaattovaara, Johanna; Hynninen, Niina; Tiililä, Ulla; Nordlund, Taru

eISBN: 978-951-9388-63-2

Journal or series: AFinLAn vuosikirja

eISSN: 2343-2608

Publication year: 2016

Number in series: 2016

Pages range: 163-183

Number of pages in the book: 233

Publisher: Suomen soveltavan kielitieteen yhdistys

Place of Publication: Jyväskylä

Publication country: Finland

Publication language: English

Persistent website address: https://journal.fi/afinlavk/article/view/59725

Publication open access: Openly available

Publication channel open access: Delayed open access channel

Publication is parallel published (JYX): https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/52292

Additional information: Suomen soveltavan kielitieteen yhdistyksen (AFinLA) julkaisuja ; 74, ISSN 0781-0318
Suomen soveltavan kielitieteen yhdistyksen AFinLAn vuotuinen syyssymposium, Helsinki 13.-14.11.2015

Abstract

This paper sets out to chart underlying assumptions and fundamental axioms of an integrative research edifice for studying language and how it is developed over time as a human- and culture-centered and multifaceted phenomenon. Specifically, invoking Vygotskian sociocultural theory, the Bakhtin circle dialogism, distributed language and cognition and dynamic systems theory, it is argued that language is a purposive, multifaceted, complex, dialogical, and dynamic system that emerges distributively across the interpenetrated web of human somatic and brain activities, socio-cultural umwelt, sociohistorically-fashioned artifacts and realized affordances simultaneously and over time. Suggestions are provided, upon this foundation, to remediate the debate toward laying out a framework for describing, explaining and understanding L2 development as a unitary temporal system that has both cognitive and social dimensions but is not ontologically reducible to either. This argument leads to the conclusion that to further our understanding of language and its development over an individual’s lifespan, we need to crossfertilize different research programs and bridge across existing paradigmatic boundaries.

Keywords: second language; language development; language learning; sociocultural factors; language teaching; philosophy of language

Free keywords: sociocultural theory; dialogism; dynamic systems theory

Contributing organizations

Ministry reporting: Yes

VIRTA submission year: 2016

JUFO rating: 1