Experience as a way of overcoming non-arbitrariness: towards an extension of the potentialities of the Theory of Matrices and Etymons ; Le recours à l’expérience comme dépassement de la non-arbitrarité : vers une extension des potentialités de la Théorie des Matrices et des Etymons

International audience Experience as a way of overcoming non-arbitrariness: towards an extension of the potentialities of the Theory of Matrices and EtymonsMichaël GrégoireThe Theory of Matrices and Etymons (see Bohas-Dat 2007, Bohas-Saguer 2006, Bohas 2016) is based on an embodied cognition by claiming the link between the notion of the submorphological matrix and the body organs solicited. Our object here is to show that this method of analysis would benefit from taking into account the notion of experience in order to extend further the possibilities of grouping together terms motivated by and in the experience of the speaking subject. This implies considering both the cognitive aspects relating to the embodiment of language but also to enaction (see Varela et al. 1991/1993, Depraz et al. 2011, Berthoz 1997) and situated cognition and sociality (Vygotsky 1978, Cowley 2009, Kravchenko 2012). Thus, submorphems can be presented as phenomenologically and culturally oriented bodily and mental acts linked to a 'class of sensorimotor experience' (Bottineau 2012: §31). These submorphems are thus "kinesic models of multimodal coordination (grasping, vocalization, oculomotricity, etc.)" which participate in the construction of experience and the cultural specification of a given language (cf. Bottineau 2017b). For example, the oculomotor path of a straightness is associated by the experience with the submorphism {tooth x vibrating} detected in the form tr, dr or r-d by Bottineau (2012) in application to English: tree, tower, direct, train, attract, road, to read, to drive, etc. (see Bottineau 2012: §30). In Spanish, we find, for example, the forms atraer/traer ("attract, bring"), tirar ("pull, throw"), derretir ("melt"), trepar ("climb"), verter ("pour"), brotar ("spurt"), metro ("underground"), tren ("train"), tranvía ("tramway"), directo ("direct"), tarangallo/trangallo ("stick hanging from the neck of the dogs"), etc. Furthermore, some lexicographically recorded jobs do not allow us to deal with the subtleties of ...