Bert H. Hodges

List of John Benjamins publications for which Bert H. Hodges plays a role.

Articles

Hodges, Bert H. 2017 Carrying, caring, and conversing: Constraints on the emergence of cooperation, conformity, and language Interaction Studies 18:1, pp. 26–54 | Article

Social and ecological research and theory are used to elaborate and enrich two important sets of accounts of language origins. One is the interdependence and shared intentionality hypothesis (e.g., Tomasello, 2014a) of the ways in which humans became cooperative and conforming in ways that other… read more

Hodges, Bert H. 2011 Ecological pragmatics: Values, dialogical arrays, complexity, and caring Distributed Language, Cowley, Stephen J. (ed.), pp. 135–159 | Article

Hodges, Bert H. 2009 Ecological pragmatics: Values, dialogical arrays, complexity, and caring Distributed Language, Cowley, Stephen J. (ed.), pp. 628–652 | Article

This paper explores the hypothesis that first-order linguistic activities are better understood in terms of ecological, values-realizing dynamics rather than in terms of rule-governed processes. Conversing, like other perception-action skills (e.g., driving) is constrained by multiple values,… read more