Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 16, No. 463.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 07:18:46 +0000
From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance)
Subject: sisTer aRTS
Re - Semantic Revisitations - eR
Jerome Bruner
Acts of Meaning
1990
pp 2-3
[in the context of mentalism vs behaviourism]
It Was an altogether more profound revolution than that. Its aim was to
discover and to describe formally the meanings that human beings created
out of their encounters with the world, and then to propose hypotheses
about what meaning-making processes were implicated. It focusssed upon the
symbolic activities that human beings employed in constructing and in
making sense not only of the world, but of themselves. Its aim was to
prompt psychology to join forces with its sister interpretaive disciplines
in the humanities and in the social sciences. Indeed, <pb n="3"/> beneath
the surface of the more computationally oriented cognitive science, this
is precisely what has been happening -- first slowly and now with
increasing momentum.
[Note the grammatical asymmetry between "world" and "self". Bruner begins
with "not only" but does not continue with "but also". A formation not
likely to get by Bruner's own series of drafts nor by a copy editor sans
comment, especially in a passage dealing with parrallelism!]
-- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large, knows no "no exit" in a hypertext
every cul-de-sac is an invitation to turn
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/miles/five.htm
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