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Language and Applied Linguistics:</span></b></p>
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Enskillment, and the Harnessing of Temporality</span></b></p>
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University of Southern Denmark</span></p>
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January 2019</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The past 10-15 years have witnessed the emergence of a “Distributed
Language Perspective” (DLP) </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">(Cowley, 2011; Steffensen, 2015)</span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.
Drawing on integrational </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">(Harris, 1981)</span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,
dialogical </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">(Linell, 2009)</span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,
ecological </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">(Gibson, 1979)</span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,
and radical embodied </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">(Chemero, 2011)</span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
tenets, DLP pursues a symbiotic view on language as both <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">
dynamical</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">symbolic</i> </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">(R¹czaszek-Leonardi,
2011; R¹czaszek-Leonardi & Scott Kelso, 2008)</span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. On that view, language has to be seen
“as fully integrated with human existence” </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">(Cowley, 2011)</span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,
which implies a non-representational view on language </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">(Kravchenko,
2007)</span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, as well as a perspective that does not reduce the research interest to language-in-communication
</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">(Steffensen & Harvey, 2018)</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In this talk, I will illustrate how one can study the situated interplay
between human agents and their environment. Starting from the key concept of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">
interactivity</i> </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">(Harvey, Gahrn-Andersen, & Steffensen,
2016; Pedersen, 2015; Steffensen, 2013, 2016; Steffensen, Vallée-Tourangeau, & Vallée-Tourangeau, 2016)</span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,
I illustrate a distributed perspective on language by focusing on examples from intercultural communication, cognitive problem-solving, and psychotherapy.</span></p>
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in the situated and ecological behaviour of human agents. I illustrate how particular ecological outcomes are achieved through the harnessing of temporality: human agents constrain their here-and-now agency by exploiting stabilised, supra-individual patterns
on longer timescales (including linguistic symbols and other sociocultural resources). On such a view, human action and agency are multi-scalar and multi-causal.
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perspective for applied linguistics. In the light of my three examples, I discuss the feasibility of a distributed perspective on applied linguistics, picking up on the cultural, cognitive, and transformational aspects of language learning. As a non-expert
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