Publications [#8161] of Julie Tetel Andresen
Books
- Linguistics Reimagined. Language Study for the Twenty-First Century. under consideration, 2007.
(last updated on 2008/01/10)Abstract:
The textbook-workbook combination of Constructing Linguistics opens a path to a new approach in linguistics, one that integrates into our discipline a "minor tradition" of thinking about our subject matter that may be summarized as "languaging as an orienting behavior." This minor tradition is represented by such disparate theorists as the American psychologist William James, the Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky, the British embryologist Conrad Waddington, and the Chilean neuro(epistemo)biologists Francisco Varela and Humberto Maturana. The minor tradition is dintinguished by an appreciation of languaging activities engaged by minds that are fully embodied and with bodies that are fully embedded in environments. As such, the minor tradition is generally consistent with constructivist accounts of phenomena that have been explored in the social and biological science in the past several decades. The title of the textbook-workbook combination shows its solidarity with constructivist accounts, broadly conceived.
