Enlanguaged experience. Pragmatist contributions to the continuity between experience and language

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Roberta Dreon
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In this paper, I present the idea of “enlanguaged experience” as a radicalization of the Pragmatists’ approach to the continuity between language and experience in the human world as a concept that can provide a significant contribution to the current debate within Enactivism. The first part of the paper explores some new conceptual tools recently developed by enactivist scholarship, namely linguistic bodies, enlanguaged affordances, and languaging. In the second part, the notion of enlanguaged experience is introduced as involving two main interrelated ideas. The first is the idea that human experience is contingently, yet irreversibly, embedded from each person’s birth within contexts made up of linguistic practices that contribute to continuously redefining what happens. Consequently, the development of individuals’ motor, perceptual, affective, selective, and cognitive capacities does not take place in a silent vacuum, but in a context of linguistic practices that are already there: such practices already operate in, and are shared by, the human groups in which individuals begin their experiences. The second key idea is that enlanguaged experience implies the claim that humans primarily meet language as part of their experience of the world, rather than as an independent system of words and grammar. In the third part of the paper, I argue that the conception of human experience as enlanguaged can fruitfully contribute to the enactivist debate, particularly with reference to three main points: firstly, the idea of a circular continuity, which is to say the claim that the advent of language in human life caused a re-configuration of previously existing forms of sensibility both ontogenetically and phylogenetically; secondly, an ecological view of language, according to which humans find themselves embedded in already operating linguistic practices and habits that are a constitutive part of their naturally social world; and, thirdly, a richer view of language “in the wild”, capable of retrieving the qualitative, affective, or aesthetic components of human enlanguaged experience.

增强语言的经验。实用主义对经验与语言之间连续性的贡献
在本文中,我提出了 "语言化经验"(enlanguaged experience)这一概念,它是对实用主义者关于人类世界中语言与经验之间连续性的方法的激进化,可以为当前行动主义内部的辩论做出重要贡献。本文的第一部分探讨了颁布主义学术界最近开发的一些新的概念工具,即语言体(linguistic bodies)、语言负担能力(enlanguaged affordances)和语言化(languaging)。第二部分介绍了 "语言体验"(enlanguaged experience)这一概念,它涉及两个相互关联的主要观点。第一种观点认为,人类的经验是偶然的,但又是不可逆转的,从每个人出生起就嵌入了语言实践所构成的语境之中,而语言实践则不断地重新定义所发生的一切。因此,个人在运动、知觉、情感、选择性和认知能力方面的发展并不是在无声的真空中进行的,而是在已经存在的语言实践背景下进行的:这些实践已经在个人开始其经验的人类群体中运作,并为这些群体所共享。第二个关键观点是,"语言经验"(enlanguaged experience)意味着人类主要将语言作为其世界经验的一部分,而不是作为一个独立的词语和语法系统。在本文的第三部分,我认为将人类经验视为enlanguaged的概念可以为制定论的辩论做出卓有成效的贡献,尤其是在以下三个要点上:第一,循环连续性的观点,即语言在人类生活中的出现导致了先前存在的感性形式在本体论和系统论上的重新配置;第二,语言的生态观,根据这种观点,人类发现自己被嵌入了已经运行的语言实践和习惯之中,而这些语言实践和习惯是人类自然社会世界的构成部分;第三,"野外 "语言的更丰富的观点,能够检索人类语言经验中的定性、情感或审美成分。
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期刊介绍: Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences is an interdisciplinary, international journal that serves as a forum to explore the intersections between phenomenology, empirical science, and analytic philosophy of mind. The journal represents an attempt to build bridges between continental phenomenological approaches (in the tradition following Husserl) and disciplines that have not always been open to or aware of phenomenological contributions to understanding cognition and related topics. The journal welcomes contributions by phenomenologists, scientists, and philosophers who study cognition, broadly defined to include issues that are open to both phenomenological and empirical investigation, including perception, emotion, language, and so forth. In addition the journal welcomes discussions of methodological issues that involve the variety of approaches appropriate for addressing these problems.    Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences also publishes critical review articles that address recent work in areas relevant to the connection between empirical results in experimental science and first-person perspective.Double-blind review procedure The journal follows a double-blind reviewing procedure. Authors are therefore requested to place their name and affiliation on a separate page. Self-identifying citations and references in the article text should either be avoided or left blank when manuscripts are first submitted. Authors are responsible for reinserting self-identifying citations and references when manuscripts are prepared for final submission.
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