Distributed Language
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This book argues that thinking is bounded by neither the brain nor the skin of an organism. Cognitive systems function through integration of neural and bodily functions with the functions of representational vehicles. The integrationist... more
Load balancing functionalities are crucial for best Grid performance and utilization. Accordingly,this paper presents a new meta-scheduling method called TunSys. It is inspired from the natural phenomenon of heat propagation and thermal... more
В статье рассматривается новый подход к языку, обозначаются его пер-спективы. Установлено, что язык необходимо изучать как часть живой систе-мы, которая неотделима от человека и его сознания. In this paper, I argue that, rather as views... more
It was long assumed that thinking goes on ‘in the head’: indeed, as recently as twenty years ago, many would have regarded it as absurd to examine thinking with reference to events beyond the brain. The chapters in Cognition beyond the... more
Where does the mind stop and the rest of the world begin? In their famous 1998 paper “The Extended Mind,” philosophers Andy Clark and David Chalmers posed this question and answered it provocatively: cognitive processes are not all in the... more
Linguists tend to view language in terms of forms and their use. For historical reasons, speaking and listening have often often ascribed to knowledge of a language system. Language behavior is thus seen as the production and processing... more
Code biology uses protein synthesis to pursue how living systems fabricate themselves. Weight falls on intermediary systems or adaptors that enable translated DNA to function within a cellular apparatus. Specifically, code intermediaries... more
Since the multi-scalarity of life encompasses bodies, language and human experience, Timo Järvilehto’s (1998) ‘one-system’ view can be applied to acts of meaning, knowing and ethics. Here, I use Paul Cobley’s Cultural Implications of... more
[I would like to note that my comments about Marcelo Barbieri's biosemiotics in this document reflect an inadequate understanding of his work. I can only refer you to the original texts, and to Cowley (2008; cited in my thesis) for an... more
In linking evolution, biosemiotics and languaging, analysis of meaning is extended by investigation of natural innovation. Rather than ascribe it to internal or external content, meaning comes first. Ecological, evolutionary and... more
In this paper I aim to show that the creation and manipulation of written vehicles is part of our cognitive processing and, therefore, that writing transforms our cognitive abilities. I do this from the perspective of cognitive... more
Linguistics is currently being transformed. In relating this to the return of languaging, I link the concept's genealogy with all of its major applications. Crucially, human understanding becomes social and subjective and, thus,... more
In viewing language as multi-scale co-ordination, the distributed perspective challenges two dominant orthodoxies. First, it denies that language is essentially ‘symbolic’ and, second, that verbal patterns are represented inside minds (or... more
The paper seeks to shift ecolinguistic focus from discourse to the bidirectional coupling of the human and the living world. In so doing, it endorses Gregory Bateson's unity of mind and nature. Accordingly appeal is made to the... more
Abstract The paper examines Marcello Barbieri’s (2007) Introduction to Biosemiotics. Highlighting debate within the biosemiotic community, it focuses on what the volume offers to those who explain human intellect in relation to what... more
While much scholarly work has contributed to the theorizing of translanguaging, in this article, we sketch an alternative model based on materiality and information theory (Bateson, 1951; Lemke, 2015) to theorize translanguaging together... more
This is nominally a book review of Hutto and Myin’s Radicalizing Enactivism: Basic Minds Without Content (The MIT Press, 2013). But it is a narrowly focused and highly prejudicial review, which presents an analysis of a contradiction at... more
Science builds on what people say and, thus, the use of signs. In pursuing this important observation, I contrast two views of knowing that look "beyond" sense impressions. I begin with John Deely's (2015) theory that self-referring... more
I use biological simplexity to argue that, having recognised nature’s repeated tricks, one can reconnect coordinated linguistic embodiment with language in its verbal aspect. The fact of linguistic symbiosis is exemplified in face-to-face... more
A growing number of scholars regard language as social co-ordination. Not only does this overcome stale debate about whether langauge is cognitive or communicative but it opens up new thinking about its evolutionary history. Focusing on... more
The paper asks how languaging and language influence the world of the living. Extending Clements and Shelford (1939), the bio-ecology is redefined as the domain of plant-animal-human-culture formations. The move places what people do as a... more
From Nigel Love's perspective, language is a multi-scalar process that connects people, history and nature. In leaving behind the Saussurian tradition's object based views, he contrasts first and second order language. However, the... more
Heteronomy informs parts of human sense-making including perceptual and linguistic activities. This article explores Berthoz's (2012) notion of simplexity in relation to heteronomous aspects of human cognition while it criticises... more
To challenge cognitivism it is important emphasise how human bodies function. Like other organisms, we evolved to act and perceive in changing environments. In spite of the fact that this can be described as representing aspects of the... more
Temporality underpins how living systems coordinate and function. Unlike measures that use mathematical conventions, lived temporalities grant functional cohesion to organisms-in-the-world. In foxtail grasses, for example,... more
Linguists classically focus on phenomenologically salient units or verbal patterns. In biolinguistics, these are “explained” by positing a brain that grows a system that identifies / generates linguistic forms (a “language faculty”). The... more
The classical pragmatists––Peirce, James Dewey, and Mead––all had important things to say about the self and there are clear continuities in their thought. Since little work has been done to connect them up, in this chapter I trace these... more
This dissertation uses an ecological framework to investigate human error in the social practice of emergency medicine. An ecological framework embraces a phenomenon in its wholeness - that means as part of a larger system than that which... more
Translation has traditionally been viewed as a branch of applied linguistics. This has changed drastically in recent decades, which have witnessed translation studies growing as a field beyond, and sometimes against, applied linguistics.... more
To view language as a cultural tool challenges much of what claims to be linguistic science while opening up a new people-centred linguistics. On this view, how we speak, think and act depends on, not just brains (or minds), but also... more
The underlying assumption of this paper is that language co-evolved with social coordination. In the commonest forms of language-based coordination, therefore, people do things together while also talking. Although there are many other... more