Language without representation: Gibson's first- and second-hand perception on a pragmatic continuum

Ecological psychology isn't just a of perception and action but offers post-cognitivist approach to as whole. In this paper we explore how the conceptual tools ecological might be put work account for linguistic deeds, activities people can perform when they are competent speakers language. We pursue question by starting from suggestion Gibson made that language use co-shape each other. However such relation reciprocity between active practices has generally not been taken heart in psychology. The first-hand perception, based on natural laws, second-hand enabled social cultural convention, understood hierarchically reciprocally. show there is trace traditional (cognitivist) view characterised what do talk A second obstacle reciprocal reading lies Gibson's concept information. argued explicitly against thinking information quantity transmitted. However, it comes he treated commodity, something re-presented, contained transferred through conventional patterns, speaking, writing depiction. order move away cognitivist picture mediated systems representations, offer an alternative usage-based information, one where thing or anywhere else. This allows us fully set aside assumption re-presentational symbolic at follow ambitions