The issue of ‘ language contact ’ has been widely explored from the perspectives of empirical description and theoretical development, as well as from sociolinguistic, societal and cognitive angles. I would like to broach the subject from a different view, to deepen reflections of an epistemological and methodological order, building on my “distanced” (but empirically grounded) examination of language contact and semiotic dynamics (Nicolai, 2011, 2017a, 2017b). Several notions will be further explored and specified here, such as: givens, constructs, historicity and WE . The goal is to structure research trajectories by highlighting both the relative relativity of our epistemic understanding and the extent of our subjectivity in context. On this basis, positions can be taken, most notably on the possible circularity of the hypotheses we posit. General learnings can be gleaned from these elements for grasping language contact, the dynamics driving their transformation, as well as general processes for ascribing meaning and developing significance, which in the end converge with current hermeneutic approaches and enactive views.

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语言接触、认知循环和“我们”

“语言接触”的问题已经从经验描述和理论发展的角度以及社会语言学、社会和认知的角度进行了广泛的探讨。我想从不同的角度探讨这个主题，以我对语言接触和符号学动态的“远距离”（但以经验为基础）检查（Nicolai，2011，2017a，2017b）为基础，加深对认识论和方法论秩序的反思。这里将进一步探讨和指定几个概念，例如：给定、构造、历史性和 WE。目标是通过强调我们认知理解的相对相对性和我们在上下文中的主观性程度来构建研究轨迹。在此基础上，可以采取立场，尤其是关于我们假设的可能循环性的立场。