Re: [xmca] Banana Mediated Emotions: Herb Clark's book

Randi,

It's great that you have contextualised Herb Clark's work as a book
that "was written in hopes of engaging cognitively oriented
psycholinguists to think differently about language (and eventually
communication and interaction)". I just read a review that was
written for Theory and Psychology that both praised the work but also
expressed concern over its Cartesian orientation evident in Clark's
position that actions originate in beliefs. The reviewer contrasts
this with a more practical, 'Aristotelian- Wittgensteinian' approach
that privileges "spontaneously enacted joint practices in terms of
which everything we as individuals do and say to one another makes
sense".

Review: http://www.massey.ac.nz/~alock/virtual/clarke.htm

I'm picking the book up from my library this afternoon and am looking
forward (to finding the time) to read it.

Cheers,

Phil
On 26/07/2007, at 3:46 AM, Randi A. Engle wrote:

> Hello Mike and all,
>
> I was one of Herb's students while he was writing his book and got
> to provide comments on several draft chapters. Chapter 6 was the
> foundation of my dissertation work on multimodal explanations.
> Many other ideas in the book provide key theoretical foundations
> for me, though it's not always easy to do empirical analyses that
> are truly consistent with those foundations.
>
> In any case, I would love to discuss anything from any part of the
> book with you and others! One complication, though, is that it
> will have to be either in the next week or so, or after the middle
> of August as I'll be out of email contact from 8/4 to 8/16.
>
> One thing that might be helpful to keep in mind when reading the
> book is that it was written in hopes of engaging cognitively
> oriented psycholinguists to think differently about language (and
> eventually communication and interaction). I think this is partly
> why the book is titled "Using Language" rather than something else
> that might cover its full scope. It's also why earlier chapters
> have a transitional character, with Herb's full positions emerging
> as the book develops. Or at least that's my reading of it.
>
> But now I am incredibly curious to learn about Mescheryakov's work.
> What did he write and where might I find it? Please excuse me in
> advance if I've missed earlier discussions here about him--I
> sometimes have trouble keeping up with all the exciting things that
> appear on this space!
>
> Cheers,
> Randi Engle
>
>
> At 8:46 AM -0700 7/25/07, Mike Cole wrote:
>> 2. All. I have just, after an inexcusable oversight lasting more
>> than a
>> decade, found
>> Herb Clark's book, *Using Language*. Does anyone know it? It
>> starts by
>> arguing that
>> language arises from pre-linguistic joint activity. In fact, the
>> entire
>> first chapter is about
>> joint activity. I have just started it, but it reads very much as
>> is it had
>> been written by
>> Mescheryakov thus far. Does anyone know this work? Am I on the
>> right track??
>> mike
>>
>
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