Manning, Thomas;
(2023)
What is conversation theory?
Cybernetics and Human Knowing: a journal of second order cybernetics, autopoiesis and cyber-semiotics
, 30
(1-2)
pp. 47-65.
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Abstract
The purpose of the following text is to give readers a general introduction to Gordon Pask’s conversation theory, which is considered here to be a cybernetic and epistemological account of concept-forming and concept-sharing through conversational discourse and practice. While Pask devoted three lengthy tomes to articulate the theory and its applications, I believe it is necessary to give readers who are interested in conversation theory a general introduction to what I believe are the key features of his work in this area. I argue that conversation theory should be considered an inferential account of the theory of concepts rather than a representational account, by virtue of Pask’s argument that a concept must be a process that involves many other concepts.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | What is conversation theory? |
| Location: | United Kingdom |
| Publisher version: | https://www.imprint.co.uk/ |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Concepts, Conversation, Conversation Theory, Entailment Mesh, Inferentialism, TOTE |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Education, Practice and Society |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10181184 |
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