Abstract
The authors of Linguistic Bodies appeal to shared know-how to explain the social and participatory interactions upon which linguistic skills and agency rest. However, some issues lurk around the notion of shared know-how and require attention and clarification. In particular, one issue concerns the agent behind the shared know-how, a second one concerns whether shared know-how can be reducible to individual know-how or not. In this paper, I sustain that there is no single answer to the first issue; depending on the case, shared know-how can belong to the participants of a social activity or to the system the participants bring forth together. In relation to the second issue, I sustain, following the authors, a non-reductive account of shared know-how. I also suggest that responsiveness to others, which is a fundamental element of shared know-how, can be extended by perceptual learning.Keywords: Shared know-how, participatory sense-making, social agency, responsiveness to others, enactivism.
Highlights
Ezequiel Di Paolo, Elena Cuffari and Hanne De Jaegher, authors of Linguistic Bodies: The Continuity between Life and Language (2018), provide us with an exemplar work within the enactive research program, putting forward in a clear way, step by step, a proposal for scaling up enactivist explanations to deal with the so called higher-order cognition, in particular, the use of language
In order to achieve the view that linguist bodies “(...) are precarious dynamic processes of navigating the primordial tension of participatory sense-making in dialogic contexts” (Di Paolo et al, 2018, p. 215), the authors show first how sensorimotor bodies become intersubjective bodies and only linguistic bodies
Linguistic actions are a specific kind of social action which in turn is a specific kind of participatory sense-making
Summary
Ezequiel Di Paolo, Elena Cuffari and Hanne De Jaegher, authors of Linguistic Bodies: The Continuity between Life and Language (2018), provide us with an exemplar work within the enactive research program, putting forward in a clear way, step by step, a proposal for scaling up enactivist explanations to deal with the so called higher-order cognition, in particular, the use of language. The authors of Linguistic Bodies appeal to shared know-how to explain how coregulation works. In relation to the second issue, I sustain, following the authors, a non-reductive account of shared know-how.
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