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Keep meaning in conversational coordination.

Elena C Cuffari¹

¹Department of Philosophy, Worcester State University Worcester, MA, USA.

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|December 19, 2014

Summary

Coordination is key to understanding how we make meaning together through language and action. This embodied approach reveals that communication is a dynamic, self-organizing process with inherent ethical implications.

Keywords:

coordination distributed cognition enaction ethics experience languaging meaning making social interaction

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Science
Linguistics
Philosophy of Mind

Background:

Intersubjectivity research increasingly uses 'coordination' to explain shared understanding.
Embodiment and enaction are central to recent theories of intersubjectivity.

Purpose of the Study:

To review the operational meaning of coordination in embodied intersubjectivity research.
To articulate the requirements for viewing linguistic meaning as dynamic coordination processes.
To explore the ethical dimensions of languaging as coordination.

Main Methods:

Literature review of empirical research and theoretical work on embodied intersubjectivity.
Analysis of linguistic and bodily coordination in conversational contexts.
Theoretical articulation of 'languaging' as self-organizing coordination processes.

Main Results:

Coordination in conversation involves dynamic, multi-timescale, multi-modal processes.
Languaging, viewed as coordination, extends beyond first-person subjective experience.
Coordination inherently involves moral dimensions due to its influence on autonomy.

Conclusions:

Embodied coordination offers a framework for understanding intersubjectivity and linguistic meaning.
Languaging as coordination is a fundamental, morally charged aspect of social interaction.
Recognizing the ethical nature of coordination is crucial for understanding human communication.