Exploring (Inter)Subjectivity and Constructional Changes

Focusing , Intersubjectivity , and “ Therapeutic Intersubjectivity ”

Intersubjectivity: Exploring Consciousness from the Second-person Perspective

Today, the study of consciousness within Western science and philosophy is polarized between investigations of third-person, objective, correlates (e.g., neuroscience and cognitive science) and investigations of first-person, subjective experience and phenomena (e.g., introspection and ~edita­ tion). These two perspectives set the terms of debate in contemporary consciousness research: Is consc...

Constructional Meaning and Compositionality

One of the major motivations for constructional approaches to grammar is that a given rule of syntactic formation can sometimes, in fact often, be associated with more than one semantic specification. For example, a pair of expressions like purple plum and alleged thief 25 call on different rules of semantic combination. The first involves something closely related to intersection of sets: a pu...

Vygotsky and intersubjectivity

Lev Vygotsky’s statement on the development of the higher psychological functions— from the interpsychological form to the intrapsychological form—is discussed in the article. I describe the changing of Vygotsky’s interest from nonverbal to verbal communication and his emphasis on verbal communication as an only kind of interpsychological function. I then analyze works that show the importance ...

Mirror neurons and intersubjectivity