Faculty Sponsor(s)
Leonard Finkelman
Location
Jereld R. Nicholson Library: Grand Avenue
Subject Area
Philosophy
Description
Language, when considered as part of the lived experience of human beings, fails to be reduced to mere representation. In line with non-representationalist understandings of the mind and knowledge-how centered understandings of knowledge, purposiveness in skill acquisition and second language acquisition may be understood through Dreyfus’s skillful coping, based in Merleau-Ponty’s intentional arc and maximal grip. Such an approach to second language acquisition decentralizes rule-based representationalist understandings of the process, such as universal grammar, and instead sees language and communication as responsive, dynamic and dyadic.
Recommended Citation
Burnett, Mia, "Response through the Intentional Arc: Merleau-Ponty, Dreyfus and Second Language Acquisition" (2019). Linfield University Student Symposium: A Celebration of Scholarship and Creative Achievement. Event. Submission 10.
https://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/symposium/2019/all/10
Response through the Intentional Arc: Merleau-Ponty, Dreyfus and Second Language Acquisition
Jereld R. Nicholson Library: Grand Avenue
Language, when considered as part of the lived experience of human beings, fails to be reduced to mere representation. In line with non-representationalist understandings of the mind and knowledge-how centered understandings of knowledge, purposiveness in skill acquisition and second language acquisition may be understood through Dreyfus’s skillful coping, based in Merleau-Ponty’s intentional arc and maximal grip. Such an approach to second language acquisition decentralizes rule-based representationalist understandings of the process, such as universal grammar, and instead sees language and communication as responsive, dynamic and dyadic.
