---
_id: '32156'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: "How do ideas come into being? Our contribution takes its starting point in
    an observation\r\nwe made in empirical data from a prior study. The data center
    around an instant of an\r\nacademic writer’s thinking during the revision of a
    scientific paper. Through a detailed\r\ndiscourse-oriented micro-analysis, we
    zoom in on the writer’s thinking activity and uncover\r\nthe genesis of a complex
    idea through a sequence of interrelated moments. These\r\nmoments feature different
    degrees of “crystallization” of the idea; from gestures, a sketch,\r\na short
    written note, oral explanations to a final spelled-out written argument. For this\r\ncontribution,
    we re-analyze the material, asking how the idea gets formed during the\r\nthinking
    process and how it reaches a tangible form, which is understandable both for\r\nthe
    thinker and for other persons. We root our analysis in a notion of language as
    social,\r\nembodied, and dialogical activity, drawing on concepts from Humboldt,
    Jakubinskij, and\r\nVygotsky. We focus our analysis on three conceptual nodes.
    The first node is the ebbing\r\nand advancing of language in idea formation –
    observable as a trajectory through linguistically more condensed or more expanded
    utterance forms. The second node is the degree of objectification that the idea
    reaches when it is performed differently in a variety of addressivity constellations,
    i.e., whether and how it becomes understandable to the thinker and to others in
    the social sphere. Finally, the third node is the saturation of the idea through
    what we call intrapersonal intertextuality, i.e., its complex and dialogically
    related re-articulations in a sequence of formative moments. With these considerations,
    we articulate a clear consequence for theorizing thinking. We hold that thinking
    is social, embodied, and dialogically organized because it is entangled with language.
    Ideas come into being and become understandable and communicable to other persons
    only by and within their different, yet, intertextually related formations."
author:
- first_name: Andrea
  full_name: Karsten, Andrea
  id: '53917'
  last_name: Karsten
  orcid: 0000-0003-0194-2000
- first_name: Marie-Cécile
  full_name: Bertau, Marie-Cécile
  last_name: Bertau
citation:
  ama: 'Karsten A, Bertau M-C. How ideas come into being: Tracing intertextual moments
    in grades of objectification and publicness. <i>Frontiers in Psychology</i>. 2019;10.
    doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02355">10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02355</a>'
  apa: 'Karsten, A., &#38; Bertau, M.-C. (2019). How ideas come into being: Tracing
    intertextual moments in grades of objectification and publicness. <i>Frontiers
    in Psychology</i>, <i>10</i>. <a href="https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02355">https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02355</a>'
  bibtex: '@article{Karsten_Bertau_2019, title={How ideas come into being: Tracing
    intertextual moments in grades of objectification and publicness}, volume={10},
    DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02355">10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02355</a>},
    journal={Frontiers in Psychology}, author={Karsten, Andrea and Bertau, Marie-Cécile},
    year={2019} }'
  chicago: 'Karsten, Andrea, and Marie-Cécile Bertau. “How Ideas Come into Being:
    Tracing Intertextual Moments in Grades of Objectification and Publicness.” <i>Frontiers
    in Psychology</i> 10 (2019). <a href="https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02355">https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02355</a>.'
  ieee: 'A. Karsten and M.-C. Bertau, “How ideas come into being: Tracing intertextual
    moments in grades of objectification and publicness,” <i>Frontiers in Psychology</i>,
    vol. 10, 2019, doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02355">10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02355</a>.'
  mla: 'Karsten, Andrea, and Marie-Cécile Bertau. “How Ideas Come into Being: Tracing
    Intertextual Moments in Grades of Objectification and Publicness.” <i>Frontiers
    in Psychology</i>, vol. 10, 2019, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02355">10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02355</a>.'
  short: A. Karsten, M.-C. Bertau, Frontiers in Psychology 10 (2019).
date_created: 2022-06-24T14:27:04Z
date_updated: 2023-12-21T08:42:58Z
department:
- _id: '424'
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02355
intvolume: '        10'
keyword:
- idea formation
- language activity
- objectification
- intrapersonal intertextuality
- articulation
- Jakubinskij
- Vygotsky
- Humboldt
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
oa: '1'
publication: Frontiers in Psychology
publication_status: published
status: public
title: 'How ideas come into being: Tracing intertextual moments in grades of objectification
  and publicness'
type: journal_article
user_id: '53917'
volume: 10
year: '2019'
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