Showing papers by "Jens Brockmeier published in 2019"
TL;DR: The notion of language games as cultural practices in children’s early linguistic and socio-cognitive development and one specific approach developed by the Laboratory for Developmental and Educational Studies in Psychology at the University of Milano Bicocca are discussed.
Abstract: This paper discusses the notion of language games as cultural practices in children’s early linguistic and socio-cognitive development. First, we trace the emergence of this concept in Jerome Bruner’s experimental and theoretical work at Oxford University in the 1960s, work that was informed by the thinking of Wittgenstein and Austin, amongst others. Second, we provide a systematic historical account of how Bruner has influenced more recent research traditions in developmental psychology, especially in the field of social cognition. Finally, we hone in on one specific approach within this field developed by the Laboratory for Developmental and Educational Studies in Psychology at the University of Milano Bicocca.
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TL;DR: This commentary states that there is by now an empirically grounded and theoretically reflected memory research that has begun to break with the traditional individual-centric orientation of the memory sciences.
Abstract: Drawing on papers from three different areas - evolutionary psychology, developmental psychology, sociolinguistics analysis - this commentary states that there is by now an empirically grounded and theoretically reflected memory research that has begun to break with the traditional individual-centric orientation of the memory sciences. This break, it is argued, is the consequence of a new interest in the dialectics between memory and language, between social (or collective or collaborative) remembering and narrative. On this view, memory is taken less as a substance and more as a set of practices, of intersubjective and interpretive acts of a remembering subject.
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01 Jan 2019
TL;DR: For the most part, self and identity are fictions as discussed by the authors, and it is difficult to use well-defined concepts to capture these “fictions.” But how then, drawing on Rom Harre, do we have to conceive of such unstable and unfixable phenomena as Self and Identity? How do we combine concepts and fictions?
Abstract: Rom Harre has held different views at different times on self and identity. He liked to keep these terms open and flexible, in line with his opinion that, “for the most part, selves are fictions”. These fictions take form (and change their form) in the ongoing flow of activities that people produce in interaction with one another—which is one reason why it is difficult, if not precarious, to use well-defined concepts to capture these “fictions.” Concepts tend to fix what they are meant to identify. In fact, this is the reason why we usually need and want well-defined concepts. But how then, drawing on Rom Harre, do we have to conceive of such unstable and unfixable phenomena as self and identity? How do we combine concepts and fictions?