Thought and Language, revised and expanded edition

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MIT Press, 6 juil. 2012 - 392 pages
A new edition of a foundational work of cognitive science that outlines a theory of the development of specifically human higher mental functions.

Since it was introduced to the English-speaking world in 1962, Lev Vygotsky's Thought and Language has become recognized as a classic foundational work of cognitive science. Its 1962 English translation must certainly be considered one of the most important and influential books ever published by the MIT Press. In this highly original exploration of human mental development, Vygotsky analyzes the relationship between words and consciousness, arguing that speech is social in its origins and that only as children develop does it become internalized verbal thought.

In 1986, the MIT Press published a new edition of the original translation by Eugenia Hanfmann and Gertrude Vakar, edited by Vygotsky scholar Alex Kozulin, that restored the work's complete text and added materials to help readers better understand Vygotsky's thought. Kozulin also contributed an introductory essay that offered new insight into Vygotsky's life, intellectual milieu, and research methods. This expanded edition offers Vygotsky's text, Kozulin's essay, a subject index, and a new foreword by Kozulin that maps the ever-growing influence of Vygotsky's ideas.

 

Table des matières

Foreword by Alex Kozulin 2012
ix
Vygotsky in Context by Alex Kozulin 1986
xxv
Note on the Title Ixxiii
lxxiii
Piagets Theory of the Childs Speech and Thought
13
Sterns Theory of Language Development
61
An Experimental Study of the Development
103
Thought and Word
223
Notes
273
References
295
Droits d'auteur

Expressions et termes fréquents

abstract actions activity adolescents adults Alexander Luria Alexei Leontiev analysis appears aspects autistic autistic thinking awareness becomes behavior Bleuler Bühler centrism cepts chain complex child child's thinking child's thought chimpanzees cognitive complex thinking concept formation concrete connected consciousness context cultural developmental egocentric speech experimental experiments external speech fact genetic Gestalt psychology higher mental functions human idea images inner speech instruction investigation Karl Bühler Köhler learning Leontiev Lev Vygotsky linguistic logical ment mental development method mind Moscow Moscow University Myshlenie i rech Narziss Ach nature nonspontaneous objects observed oral speech Piaget point of view primitive problem pseudoconcepts psychology real concepts reality role Russian scientific concepts semantic semiotic sense shows social speech Soviet specific speech development spontaneous concepts stage Stern structure syncretic theoretical theory Thought and Language thought and speech tion traits understanding verbal thought Vygotsky's word meanings written speech Würzburg

À propos de l'auteur (2012)

Lev S. Vygotsky (1896–1934) studied at Moscow University. He began his systematic work in psychology at the age of 28, and within a few years formulated his theory of the development of specifically human higher mental functions. He died of tuberculosis in 1934. Thought and Language was published posthumously that same year.

Alex Kozulin began his investigation of Vygotsky's theory at the Moscow Institute of Psychology and continued it in Boston and then Jerusalem. He is the author of Psychology in Utopia: Toward a Social History of Soviet Psychology (MIT Press, 1984), Vygotsky's Psychology: A Biography of Ideas, and a coeditor of Vygotsky's Educational Theory in Cultural Context.

Informations bibliographiques

TitreThought and Language, revised and expanded edition
Volume 29 de The MIT Press Paperback Series
AuteurLev S. Vygotsky
CollaborateurAlex Kozulin
Éditionrévisée
ÉditeurMIT Press, 2012
ISBN026251771X, 9780262517713
Longueur392 pages
  
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