Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Bodies and persons 3. Perception and action 4. Concepts 5. Imagery, memory, and reasoning 6. Language and communication 7. Cognitive development 8. Emotion and consciousness 9. Conclusion.

Using language: Communicative acts

Embodiment and Cognitive Science

In this study I investigated how collaborative interactions influence problem-solving outcomes. Conversations of twelve 6th-grade triads were analyzed utilizing quantitative and qualitative methods. Neither prior achievement of group members nor the generation of correct ideas for solution could account for between-triad differences in problem-solving outcomes. Instead, both characteristics of proposals and partner responsiveness were important correlates of the uptake and documentation of correct ideas by the group. Less successful groups ignored or rejected correct proposals, whereas more successful groups discussed or accepted them. Conversations in less successful groups were relatively incoherent as measured by the extent that proposals for solutions in these groups were connected with preceding discussions. Performance differences observed in triads extended to subsequent problem-solving sessions during which all students solved the same kinds of problems independently. These findings suggest that t...

When Smart Groups Fail

Heuristics and Biases: List of Contributors

At times, people keep their emotions from showing during social interactions. The authors' analysis suggests that such expressive suppression should disrupt communication and increase stress levels. To test this hypothesis, the authors conducted 2 studies in which unacquainted pairs of women discussed an upsetting topic. In Study 1, one member of each pair was randomly assigned to (a) suppress her emotional behavior, (b) respond naturally, or (c) cognitively reappraise in a way that reduced emotional responding. Suppression alone disrupted communication and magnified blood pressure responses in the suppressors' partners. In Study 2, suppression had a negative impact on the regulators' emotional experience and increased blood pressure in both regulators and their partners. Suppression also reduced rapport and inhibited relationship formation.

https://contextualscience.org/system/files/Butler,2003.pdf

The social consequences of expressive suppression.

This book introduces and develops the potential of complex systems as a metaphor or supra-theory for systems in applied linguistics. Change and heterogeneity are central to complex systems theory and to the resonances that we find between complex systems and applied linguistics systems. The book explores these resonances and what happens when complex systems theory is used to make sense of central areas of applied linguistic concerns: language, language learning, discourse and the language classroom. Principles of complex systems theory are explained, drawing on work that has been most developed in the biological sciences and that is being extended into the social sciences, developmental psychology and other applied disciplines. These principles importantly include descriptions of change over time (system dynamics) that work for all levels and scales: movement from temporary and relative stability through adaptive behaviours and self-organisation to the emergence of new patterns that are not amenable to reductive explanations. Seeing applied systems as complex, adaptive and dynamic opens up new conceptualisations of properties and activities, enables new questions about how people use, learn and teach languages, and demands new ways of investigating behaviour and development.

https://tesol-dev.journals.cdrs.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/06/5.-Sherris-2009.pdf

Using language: Communicative acts

Citations

Embodiment and Cognitive Science

When Smart Groups Fail

Heuristics and Biases: List of Contributors

The social consequences of expressive suppression.

Complex Systems and Applied Linguistics

Related Papers (5)

Grounding in communication

A simplest systematics for the organization of turn-taking for conversation

Logic and conversation

Relevance: Communication and Cognition

How to do things with words