Abstract This paper clarifies the relation between interactivity and languaging. Hitherto proponents of interactivity have tacitly distinguished between two ways in which “interactivity” can be used. While sometimes espousing a wide view, empirical work on the phenomenon has focused on interactivity in a much narrower sense. Having clarified this distinction, I pursue the more important wide sense in tracing the role of interactivity to the emergence of languaging in early infancy. Occurrences of interactivity allow the child to orient toward nonlocal events and resources that, gradually, enable his or her experience to draw on linguistic denotation and an emerging sense of personhood. Finally, I propose that this can be understood in relation to existential meaning. When considered as intrinsic to both languaging and interactivity, such meanings can guide how wordings are brought into play as people attune to cultural norms and expectations.

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互动和语言

摘要本文阐明了交互性和语言之间的关系。迄今为止，交互性的支持者已经默认了两种可以使用“交互性”的方式。尽管有时拥护广阔的视野，但有关该现象的实证研究却从更狭义的角度着眼于互动性。在澄清了这种区别之后，我在追寻互动性对婴儿早期语言的出现所扮演的角色方面，追求更重要的广泛意义。互动的发生使孩子能够定向到非本地事件和资源上，从而逐渐使他或她的经验能够借鉴语言的含义和新兴的人格意识。最后，我建议可以相对于存在意义来理解这一点。当被视为语言和交互性的内在因素时，