It occurred to me that Bakhtin's utterance is delimited by turn-taking, and this is quite a nice definition for a pragmatic theory of social interaction etc. And then I realized that Vygotsky's conception seems to be very elastic on this point. Word-meaning shorter and much more cognitivist, the 'double stimulation experiments' more like Bakhtin's turn-taking, but the child development stuff much more open ended. And then 'activity' carries this connotation of being on-going and not delimited, which gives it quite different implications I think.
And I certainly go with Im Anfang war der Tat. Andy Mike Cole wrote:
Some time before it ends, Andy?For sure I recommend that you take a look at Dewey's early critique of the reflex arc concept in dealing withthis issue. Which was in the beginning, anyway, the word or the deed? mikeOn Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net <mailto:ablunden@mira.net>> wrote:Can anyone tell me whether there has ever been any discussion about when an action begins and ends? (By "action" I mean in the technical sense of Activity Theory.) Andy ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andy Blunden (Erythrós Press and Media) http://www.erythrospress.com/ Orders: http://www.erythrospress.com/store/main.html#books _______________________________________________ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu <mailto:xmca@weber.ucsd.edu> http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca
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