Open AccessA linguagem e a atividade
Author(s) -
Cristina Rocha,
Marília Gomes de Carvalho
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
cadernos de estudos lingüísticos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2447-0686
pISSN - 0102-5767
DOI - 10.20396/cel.v39i0.8636941
Subject(s) - conceptualization , artifact (error) , sociocultural evolution , activity theory , linguistics , consciousness , representation (politics) , sociology , psychology , expression (computer science) , epistemology , human language , cognitive science , computer science , philosophy , anthropology , neuroscience , politics , political science , law , programming language
This essay makes considerations about a wider concept of language as activity and not as an artifact, although it may be in this way understood, when it is stated that anyone may appropriate language, utilize it, improve it, and little by little, modify it and, thus, adequate it to the different activities in the practices of sociocultural groups. This essay also mentions the statements of these many researchers, who rely upon the Activity Theory, inspired in Vygotsky, proposed by Y. Engeström, and summed up in the model of human activities representation. Further, the essay resorts to the Russian philosopher Mikhail M. Bakhtin (1895-1975), to whom is attributed the Theory of Dialogism, and, as a consequence, the understanding of this new conceptualization of language as not a mere human cultural artifact, but as activity in itself, as language is inherent to Being and because it is attribute and not product of Being. The formation of consciousness and learning comes about through the social relationships and constant interactions that occur everyday in activities developed in communities of practice, as studied by E. Wenger.