I recently started encountering the word "Languaging". It has that academically desperate new-word stink all over it. Further, Google seems to like answering the question "is languaging a word" with an enthusiastic "YES!" which makes me suspicious that it will claim any noun that ends in "-ing" is a word. Super smart. Anyway, OED is more circumspect, but I still can't get any sources to reveal any historical usage. I found the definition below, and from my layman's perspective, I would assume it earned someone a phd. Does anyone know what this term means and where it originated.
I'm not sure how this construction makes sense. It's like domain name parking. what does building knowledge even mean? complex problems? why not simple ones? Didn't they used to call this "talking"??
Anyway if someone cares to share any knowledge they might have, it would be appreciated.
“Languaging” or “doing language” is a collaborative dialogic activity or a process of making meaning and building knowledge through language to solve complex problems.