An etymology question, I am genuinely curious

Question

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.&ldquo;Languaging&rdquo; or &ldquo;doing language&rdquo; is a collaborative dialogic activity or a process of making meaning and building knowledge through language to solve complex problems.

ofalkaed · Accepted Answer

Academics do not dictate what is and is not a word, usage does and it is generally difficult to find historical usage for recent words.
Edit: mistook what you meant by "academically desperate" most likely but I am not 100% sure about what you did mean by it. New usages have vague definitions since there is not enough usage yet and it may very well be a new way to say "talking" but the definition you gave makes it sound more like a new way to say "discussing."
You may want to read up on how language evolves and grows.
Edit a tad more:
Did a bit of digging and "languaging" has its first recorded use (according to google books) back in the early 1800s and has had a fairly regular niche usage up until the 1960s where use starts to increase.
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=languaging&yea...
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22languaging%22&lr=lang_en&...

jfengel · Answer

The OED is always going to be a lagging indicator -- usually decades lagging.Their sibling project, The Oxford Dictionary of English, is going to be much more current on slang. The names are confusing, but aside from having the same publisher they're almost completely unrelated. The OED is an academic project for past language evolution; the Oxford Dictionary of English is a practical dictionary for use by everyday English speakers.

jaclaz · Answer

new-word stink? checkmeaning everything and the contrary of it? checknew? No, seemingly it is around since many years, very likely "invented" by Merrill Swain:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merrill_Swainhttps://hbepbmt.wordpress.com/reading-reflection-week-6-defi...cannot say in which of her many papers it was used first.