Distributed Languaging, Affective Dynamics, and, Thibault Hardcover..

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Distributed Languaging, Affective Dynamics, and the Human Ecology Volume IICo-articulating Self and World\nAuthor(s): Paul J. Thibault\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367611910, 978-0367611910\nSynopsis\nLanguage plays a central role in human life. However, the term \""language\"" as defined in the language sciences of the 20th century and the traditions these have drawn on, have arguably limited our thinking about what language is and does. The two inter-linked volumes of Thibaults study articulate crucially important aspects of an emerging new perspective shift on languagethe Distributed Language viewthat is now receiving more and more attention internationally. Rejecting the classical view that the fundamental architecture of language can be localised as a number of inter-related levels of formal linguistic organisation that function as the coded inputs and outputs to each other, the distributed language view a.