Vygotsky's psychology-philosophy : a metaphor for language theory and learning /

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Author / Creator:Robbins, Dorothy, 1947-
Imprint:New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, c2001.
Description:xiv, 144 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Cognition and language : a series in psycholinguistics
Cognition and language.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4466881
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ISBN:0306464233
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-138) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 1.. Background Information on Vygotskian Theory and Vygotsky and Man
  • Introduction
  • Caveats in Terminology--Problems between Vygotskian and Cartesian Thinking
  • Days and Ages
  • 2.. Overview of L. S. Vygotsky's Psychological--Philosophical Theory
  • Consciousness
  • Lower Mental Processes and Higher Mental Processes
  • Domains: Phylogeny, Ontogeny, Sociocultural History, Microgenesis
  • 3.. Tools--Psychological Tools--Internalization--Signs
  • Tools
  • Psychological and Technical Tools
  • Internalization
  • Signs
  • History
  • Thought--Word--Word Meanings--Language
  • Word Meaning and Sense
  • Inner Speech
  • Concept Formation
  • Scientific and Spontaneous Concepts
  • Summary of Thought, Word Meaning, Language, and Concept Formation
  • Dialectics
  • Dialectics and Spinoza
  • Problems Regarding Vygotsky's Understanding of Dialectics
  • Aesthetics
  • Criticisms of Vygotsky and Responses
  • Vygotsky's Contributions
  • 4.. Chomskyan Linguistics and Vygotskian Semiotics
  • American Linguistic Theory and Second Language Acquisition (SLA)
  • Rationalism (Chomskyan Perspective)
  • Innatism (Chomskyan Perspective)
  • Competence (Chomskyan Perspective)
  • Vygotskian Understanding of Rationalism, Innatism, Competence
  • Rationalism (Vygotskian Perspective)
  • Innatism (Vygotskian Perspective)
  • Innatism and the Fodor Paradox
  • Relativity (Representationalism and Perception)
  • Fodor--Vygotsky--Whorf (Continuation of Innatist Discussion)
  • Perception (Related to Innatism)
  • Competence (and Mental Representations--Vygotskian Perspective)
  • 5.. Universal Grammar--SLA--Grammar from a Vygotskian Position
  • Vygotskian Grammar (L1 and L2)
  • 6.. Conclusion
  • References
  • Index