The paper links critique of ‘inner process’ to a perspective that treats language as activity that is accomplished by living beings. The view traces reading to human ways of coordinating with ‘the seen’. Having contrasted this distributed view with organism-first alternatives, I use a case study of reports to sketch how readers engage with written materials to both select details and project an imagined ‘source’ (e.g. a meaning, author or intention). Far from using inner process (‘decoding’) readers coordinate with a field of patternings. Where skilled, they use recollecting to link looking, silent thinking, expectations and strategic moves. Using judgements, they transform what they observe by setting off experience. I thus build on Wittgenstein's critique of inner process while also endorsing Trybulec’s (2019) radicalization of his view. To avoid treating the sense of ‘written words’ as subjective, the material aspect of patternings is taken to index outward criteria (roughly, standards of judgement). In seeking to replace theories that presuppose ‘text’, I stress how patternings invite directed sensorimotor activity by an intelligent person. Indeed, since persons learn to see wordings (or take a language stance) arrangements of patternings act as marks, ‘symbols’ and aggregations that set off recollection, judgements and iterated action. Skilled readers can use re-reading, the already read etc. to modulate ways of attending. Readers link the said, hints, recollections and ways of actualizing movements to grant reading experience a specific sense. By considering how outer criteria are evoked, reading is traced back to skilled linguistic action.

该论文将对“内部过程”的批评与一种观点联系起来，该观点将语言视为由众生完成的活动。该视图将阅读追溯到人类与“所见”协调的方式。在将这种分布式观点与以生物为先的替代方案进行对比之后，我使用了一个案例研究报告来勾勒出读者如何利用书面材料来选择细节并投射出想象中的“来源”（例如含义，作者或意图）。读取器远不使用内部过程（“解码”），而是与图案领域进行协调。在熟练的地方，他们使用回忆将外观，沉默的思维，期望和战略行动联系起来。他们运用判断力，通过激发经验来改变他们观察到的东西。因此，我以维特根斯坦对内部过程的批评为基础，同时也支持特布勒贝克（2019）对他的观点的激进主义。为了避免将“书面文字”的感觉视为主观，图案的实质性方面被用来索引向外的标准（大致上是判断标准）。在寻求替代以“文本”为前提的理论时，我强调了图案如何吸引聪明人的定向感觉运动。确实，由于人们学会了看到措辞（或采取语言立场），因此图案的排列起着标志的作用，“符号”和集合会引起回忆，判断和反复行动。熟练的读者可以使用重新阅读，已经阅读的书籍等来调整参加方式。读者将所说的，提示，回忆和实现动作的方式联系起来，以赋予阅读经验一种特定的感觉。通过考虑如何唤起外部标准，阅读可以追溯到熟练的语言行动。