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<p>This essay deals with how to “bring things into languaging” (`enlanguaging´). The theoretical background is a humanistic perspective, Merleau-Ponty´s phenomenology and extended dialogism. It will be argued that the phenomenon of `internal dialogue´, i.e., internal interaction within individual minds, are at play in such processes. This paper will consider different activities such as perception, thinking, speaking, planning for speaking, understanding, reading, interaction, and decision-making. It also pays attention to circumstances when public talk is evaded or inhibited.</p>
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This essay deals with how to “bring things into languaging” (`enlanguaging´). The theoretical background is a humanistic perspective, Merleau-Ponty´s phenomenology and extended dialogism. It will be argued that the phenomenon of `internal dialogue´, i.e., internal interaction within individual minds, are at play in such processes. This paper will consider different activities such as perception, thinking, speaking, planning for speaking, understanding, reading, interaction, and decision-making. It also pays attention to circumstances when public talk is evaded or inhibited.

Bringing Things into Languaging or Not: The Role of Internal Dialogue

Professor Emeritus in the Department of Pedagogy

Communication and Learning, Göteborg University

Linguistic Frontiers

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This essay deals with how to “bring things into languaging” (`enlanguaging´). The theoretical background is a humanistic perspective, Merleau-Ponty´s...

Bringing Things into Languaging or Not: The Role of Internal Dialogue

Pubblicato online: 05 lug 2024

Pagine: 1 - 11

Ricevuto: 18 nov 2023

Accettato: 30 dic 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/lf-2024-0003

Parole chiave
Phenomenology, enlanguaging, internal dialogue, thinking, speaking, reading, decision-making

© 2024 Per Linell, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Bringing Things into Languaging or Not: The Role of Internal Dialogue

Pubblicato online: 05 lug 2024

Pagine: 1 - 11

Ricevuto: 18 nov 2023

Accettato: 30 dic 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/lf-2024-0003

Parole chiavePhenomenology, enlanguaging, internal dialogue, thinking, speaking, reading, decision-making

© 2024 Per Linell, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Parole chiave
Phenomenology, enlanguaging, internal dialogue, thinking, speaking, reading, decision-making