Coordination by speaking

Abstract

This article builds on approaches which focus on the human being in psychological consideration, that is to say humans can only be understood as active subjects embedded in their socio-cultural environment. Therefore, mental processes can be unfolded by the exposure to a socio-cultural environment and other acting subjects. The ability to coordinate each other by speech is a specifical aspect between the dynamics of subjects. The point at issue is that the intentional subject is able to expand his capacity of acting by coordinated cooperation with other subjects and finally applies these linguistic coordinations to himself. This article deals with the coherence between subject sciences and cultural-historical psychology and we will associate certain aspects with the philosophy of language and the psychology of perception. In this context we highlight the ability of coordination by speech. This mental basis can be seen as a starting point which will allow specific examinations of higher mental processes to be made.

Keywords

• subject science
• cultural-historical psychology
• cooperation
• affordance
• orientation
• actionability