Gragoatá (Jun 2006)
Language, activity, activity organizers
Abstract
In the recent history of social sciences, the need to deal with irreducible objects with a strictly disciplinary approach, like the human work activity, has imposed the beginnings of decompartmentilization which does not only affect the barriers between disciplines but also the frontiers between knowledge and action. Language will not from escape this discussion for long: firstly, passively, because it is used as a complement to issues from the sciences of action, and also actively because it provides an original approach to human activities thanks to its concepts and methods. We should therefore consider how to broaden theories in order to enable linguists to appropriate the concepts from certain adjacent disciplines (such as ergonomics, work psychology, etc.) and even some of their issues, elaborated according to the requirements of each different intervention and situation. --- Original in French.
