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Pepper's discussion of "events" as units of analysis within a contextualist world view might be helpful, Andy. World Hypotheses On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 8:19 AM, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> wrote: > I'll look in my Dewey and see what I can find. Then there's the internet > which has lots of Dewey. > > It occurred to me that Bakhtin's utterance is delimited by turn-taking, and > this is quite a nice definition for a pragmatic theory of social interaction > etc. And then I realized that Vygotsky's conception seems to be very elastic > on this point. Word-meaning shorter and much more cognitivist, the 'double > stimulation experiments' more like Bakhtin's turn-taking, but the child > development stuff much more open ended. And then 'activity' carries this > connotation of being on-going and not delimited, which gives it quite > different implications I think. > > And I certainly go with Im Anfang war der Tat. > Andy > > Mike Cole wrote: > >> Some time before it ends, Andy? >> For sure I recommend that you take a look at Dewey's early critique of the >> reflex arc concept in dealing with >> this issue. Which was in the beginning, anyway, the word or the deed? >> mike >> >> >> On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net <mailto: >> ablunden@mira.net>> wrote: >> >> Can anyone tell me whether there has ever been any discussion about >> when an action begins and ends? (By "action" I mean in the technical >> sense of Activity Theory.) >> Andy >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Andy Blunden (Erythrós Press and Media) http://www.erythrospress.com/ >> Orders: http://www.erythrospress.com/store/main.html#books >> >> _______________________________________________ >> xmca mailing list >> xmca@weber.ucsd.edu <mailto:xmca@weber.ucsd.edu> >> http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca >> >> >> > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Andy Blunden (Erythrós Press and Media) http://www.erythrospress.com/ > Orders: http://www.erythrospress.com/store/main.html#books > > _______________________________________________ > xmca mailing list > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca > _______________________________________________ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca