THE CONSTRUCTION OF MEANING IN LINGUISTIC INTERACTIONS: AN ECOCOGNITIVE STUDY
Construction of meaning; linguistic interactions; language use; language games; ecocognition and language.
In this master’s thesis, I present an investigation conducted to characterize the construction of meaning that takes place in concrete linguistic interactions, that is, in real and authentic communication situations. For this purpose, I employed a non-probabilistic sampling strategy, selecting the recorded instances of interactions during a ten-minute and two-second segment of the documentary series The Beatles: Get Back (Part 2..., 2021). For analyzing this audiovisual material, I implemented a categorical content analysis (Bardin, 2011) which primarily encompassed the description of language games from an ecocognitive perspective (Duque, 2022a). The outcomes of this study suggest that the construction of meaning in interactions can be characterized as a cumulative cognitive process of (re)modeling concepts, in which specific conditions of historicity and situatedness play a distinctive role.