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Reaching for Meaning

Published:2009-04 Issue:2 Volume:19 Page:213-233
ISSN:0959-3543
Container-title:Theory & Psychology
language:en
Short-container-title:Theory & Psychology

Author:

Brockmeier Jens¹

Affiliation:

1. FREE UNIVERSITY BERLIN AND UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA,

Abstract

In this paper I am exploring meaning and meaning constructions as forms of human agency. Drawing on notions of meaning, agency, and subjectivity by Jerome Bruner and Klaus Holzkamp, my discussion emphasizes the human potentials to act, choose, and imagine as integral to the human condition. Against the backdrop of this discussion, I am particularly interested in the meaning-making resources of language, especially, of two forms of language use. One is agentive discourse—the discourse of agency—because it brings to the fore the constructive dimension of language. The other is narrative, because it is the most complex and comprehensive construction site of human imagination. I suggest that narrative imagination plays a central role in probing and extending real and fictive scenarios of agency.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

History and Philosophy of Science,General Psychology

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0959354309103540

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