Volume 18 · Number 1 · Pages 059–063
Stories Explaining Meaning

Sergio Rodríguez Gómez

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Abstract

Open peer commentary on the article “The Maturanian Turn: Good Prospects for the Language Sciences” by Alexander V. Kravchenko. Abstract: I pose three general questions to the target article: (a) How radical should the explanatory models of the prospective Maturanian turn be? To address this, I propose a recurrential, narrative approach focused on observing the history of meaning grounding of an agent and then explaining such history by creating a story. (b) Should this turn also avoid human exceptionalism and, instead, understand language as part of a bigger systemic structure of agents’ ways of sense-making and action? (c) What is the place of the latter theories of education proposed by Maturana, particularly the concept of emotioning, in the prospective turn?

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Rodríguez Gómez S. (2022) Stories explaining meaning. Constructivist Foundations 18(1): 059–063. https://constructivist.info/18/1/059

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