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Re: [xmca] Perezhivanie from Varshav and Vygotsky



Hi all,
I hope we will some time soon be able to move beyond the concepts of "meaning" and "word meaning" because they mean so little, or rather, even semioticians do not know what people mean by them because they use them in so many different ways. If you want a polysemous word, it is this: meaning. Problem is that nothing that comes out of the Saussurian line of work, including Bakhtin, makes sense when you translate it as meaning. ANd Heidegger uses Bedeuting, which both means to point (deuten) and to interpret (deuten). I think there is probably an interesting project. (In JMB, 2004, I tried to provide some answers to the question of "What is the meaning of meaning?").
:-)
Cheers,
Michael


On 14-Feb-09, at 12:58 PM, Mike Cole wrote:

Darn. And I failed to quote Bakhtin! :-)

Perhaps I err, but it seems to me that there is a good deal of discussion on XMCA focusing on word meaning which gives the impression that at times people want to get it right, more or less independent of context of use... sort of like scientific concepts in the discussion running parallel to this. But we cannot keep track of the reductions in our own backgrounding of complex theory/context relations even as we struggle against them.

Have a great experience in your travels michael, and I hope you do not perezhivaiete waiting for delayed flights!

mike


On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Wolff-Michael Roth <mroth@uvic.ca> wrote: Bakhtin tells us that this pertains to ALL terms. :-) Michael (In Toronto, en route to Zurich)



On 14-Feb-09, at 12:41 PM, Mike Cole wrote:


I am convinced that perezhivanie is a highly polysemic term, the varied
narrowed-down meanings

Wolff-Michael Roth,
Lansdowne Professor, Applied Cognitive Science
MacLaurin Building A548
University of Victoria
Email: mroth@uvic.ca
Internet: http://www.educ.uvic.ca/faculty/mroth



Wolff-Michael Roth,
Lansdowne Professor, Applied Cognitive Science
MacLaurin Building A548
University of Victoria
Email: mroth@uvic.ca
Internet: http://www.educ.uvic.ca/faculty/mroth

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