Distributed language

Distributed language represents an externalist perspective on human cognition. Instead of tracing communication to individual knowledge of a symbolic system, language-activity is taken to sustain the human world. Extending work by Humberto Maturana, priority is given to how face-to-face interaction draws on multimodal activity or languaging .[1] As people language together, they gain the skills and knowledge needed to participate in a range of activities in which wordings play a part. Over time, these activities construct and maintain language as a whole. Distributed language thus links a biological theory of the origin of language to distributed cognition. Human cognitive and communicative abilities arise as people do things together while drawing on material, linguistic and other resources. Language activity is constrained by biology, circumstances, and collective ways of life. While bodies sustain coordination, our lived realities are extended by the resources of a partly shared collective world. Thus, language cannot be separated from the artifacts and institutions or the behaviour of the living beings who undertake collaborative (and solo) tasks. This distributed perspective challenges the mainstream view that language use can be explained by individual competencies and microsocial rules. To ascribe 'language' to individual organisms is, on the distributed perspective, an error. Building on cognitive science, the perspective challenges cognitive internalism by presenting language as a prime case of embodied and culturally embedded cognition. It emphasizes that the heterogeneity of human language does much to shape people, mind and society.

Major Founders

• [1] Stephen Cowley
• [2] Bert Hodges
• Alexander_Kravchenko_(linguist)
• [3] Per Linell
• [4] Paul J. Thibault
• Nigel Love, Department of Linguistics at University of Cape Town

External links

• The Distributed Language Group at University of Hertfordshire
• A supporting site for practitioners and applied researchers hosted in the Department of Second Language Studies at University of Hawaii at Manoa

References

This linguistics article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.v · edit] Sources Cowley, C. (2011) Distributed Language (Ed). John Benjamins. [5] Wikimedia Foundation. 2010. Игры ⚽ Поможем сделать НИР Linkwater The Living Reed Look at other dictionaries: Distributed Language Translation — or Distribuita Lingvo Tradukado (DLT) was a project to develop an interlingual machine translation system for twelve European languages. It ran between 1985 and 1990. The distinctive feature of DLT was the use of [a version of] Esperanto as an… …   Wikipedia Distributed Language Translation — Traduction de langues distribuée Pour les articles homonymes, voir DLT. Le projet Traduction de langues distribuée (en anglais : Distributed Language Translation, en espéranto Distribuita Lingvo Tradukado, en abrégé DLT) était un projet de… …   Wikipédia en Français Distributed GIS — concerns itself with GI Systems that do not have all of the system components in the same physical location. This could be the processing, the database, the rendering or the user interface. Examples of distributed systems are web based GIS,… …   Wikipedia Distributed Objects Everywhere — (DOE) was a long running Sun Microsystems project to build a distributed computing environment based on the CORBA system in the back end and OpenStep as the user interface. First started in 1990 and announced soon thereafter, it remained… …   Wikipedia Language module — refers to a hypothesized structure in the human brain (anatomical module) or cognitive system (functional module) that some psycholinguists (e.g., Steven Pinker) claim contains innate capacities for language. According to Jerry Fodor the sine qua …   Wikipedia Distributed artificial intelligence — (DAI) is a subfield of artificial intelligence research dedicated to the development of distributed solutions for complex problems regarded as requiring intelligence. DAI is closely related to and a predecessor of the field of Multi Agent Systems …   Wikipedia Distributed object communication — realizes communication between distributed objects in the distributed computing environment. The main role is to interconnect objects residing in non local memory space and allowing them to perform remote calls and exchange data. The widely used… …   Wikipedia Distributed shared memory — (DSM), in Computer Architecture is a form of memory architecture where the (physically separate) memories can be addressed as one (logically shared) address space. Here, the term shared does not mean that there is a single centralized memory but… …   Wikipedia Distributed Component Object Model — (DCOM) is a proprietary Microsoft technology for communication among software components distributed across networked computers. DCOM, which originally was called Network OLE , extends Microsoft s COM, and provides the communication substrate… …   Wikipedia Distributed Art Publishers — Founded 1990 Founder Sharon Helgason Gallagher Country of origin United States Headquarters location New York City Publication types Books and Limited Editions …   Wikipedia 18+ © Academic, 2000-2024 Contact us: Technical Support, Advertising Dictionaries export, created on PHP, Joomla, Drupal, WordPress, MODx. Mark and share Search through all dictionaries Translate… Search Internet Share the article and excerpts Direct link … Do a right-click on the link above and select “Copy Link”