Author: Maryanne WolfPublisher: Harvard Educational Review Reprint Series
ISBN:
Category : Language arts
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
Thought and Language
Author: Lev Semenovich VygotskiĭPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262720106
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Since it was introduced to the English-speaking world in 1962, Lev Vygotsky's highly original exploration of human mental development has become recognized as a classic foundational work of cognitive science. 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. Now Alex Kozulin has created a new edition of the original MIT Press translation by Eugenia Hanfmann and Gertrude Vakar that restores the work's complete text and adds materials that will help readers better understand Vygotsky's meaning and intentions. Kozulin has also contributed an introductory essay that offers new insight into the author's life, intellectual milieu, and research methods. Lev S. Vygotsky (1896-1934) studied at Moscow University and acquired in his brief lifespan a nearly encyclopedic knowledge of the social sciences, psychology, philosophy, linguistics, literature, and the arts. 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 ten years later, and Thought and Languagewas published posthumously in 1934. Alex Kozulin studied at the Moscow Institute of Medicine and the Moscow Institute of Psychology, where he began his investigation of Vygotsky and the history of Soviet psychology. He emigrated in 1979 and is now Associate Professor of Psychiatry (Psychology) at Boston University. He is the author of Psychology in Utopia: Toward a Social History of Soviet Psychology(MIT Press 1984).
Thought and Language
Author: L. S. VygotskiiLanguage at the Speed of Sight
Author: Mark SeidenbergPublisher:
ISBN: 0465019323
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
We’ve been teaching reading wrong—a leading cognitive scientist tells us how we can finally do it right
The Stuff of Thought
Author: Steven PinkerPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101202602
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
This New York Times bestseller is an exciting and fearless investigation of language from the author of Rationality, The Better Angels of Our Nature and The Sense of Style and Enlightenment Now. "Curious, inventive, fearless, naughty." --The New York Times Book Review Bestselling author Steven Pinker possesses that rare combination of scientific aptitude and verbal eloquence that enables him to provide lucid explanations of deep and powerful ideas. His previous books - including the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Blank Slate - have catapulted him into the limelight as one of today's most important popular science writers. In The Stuff of Thought, Pinker presents a fascinating look at how our words explain our nature. Considering scientific questions with examples from everyday life, The Stuff of Thought is a brilliantly crafted and highly readable work that will appeal to fans of everything from The Selfish Gene and Blink to Eats, Shoots & Leaves.
Thought & Language/language & Reading
Author: Maryanne WolfPublisher: Harvard Educational Review Reprint Series
ISBN:
Category : Language arts
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
Napoleon Hill's the Language of Thought
Author: Napoleon HillPublisher:
ISBN: 9781640952423
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Napoleon Hill's The Language of Thought is your guide to understanding, generating, and directing more powerful thoughts so that you can live and work with more intention, joy, and success. The single most powerful tool available to human beings is not money, physical strength, influence, or a network; it is the mind. Our thoughts determine our outcomes in life, as well as our ability to enjoy the journey. In order to harness our thoughts to create material success, we do not require any personal advantage such as wealth, connections, or education. We simply need to utilize the mental resources already within our possession by cultivating a thorough understanding of the workings of the mind and the manner in which thoughts may be transformed into their physical counterparts. In order to create positive change in our lives, we must learn to speak the language of thought, which has its own unique formula. This book contains Napoleon Hill's best lessons on the components that make up the language of thought, as well as easy-to-follow, modernized instructions on how to leverage these elements to generate more powerful thoughts. In particular, you will discover how to: Magnetize your thought impulses with desire Refine your thoughts with definiteness of purpose Control and direct your emotions to productive ends Support your goals with a compelling network of motives Create positive thought habits through concentration and repetition Protect your mind from negative external influences The more you practice the principles outlined in this book, the more fluency you will gain in the language of thought. As your facility for this language develops, you will experience greater control over your thoughts and emotions, which will enable you to enjoy more success in the pursuit of your definite major purpose. There are no limitations to the mind conditioned for achievement. Are you ready to write your success story with more powerful language? "You will attract to you...the very things, or the very station in life, that you create in your thoughts." --Napoleon Hill
Thought and Language, revised and expanded edition
Author: Lev S. VygotskyPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 026251771X
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
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.
The Student
Author: The World and Language in Wittgenstein's Philosophy
Author: Gordon HunningsPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780887065859
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This book explores the interrelated concepts of representation and grammar in the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein. Throughout his life, Wittgenstein was obsessed with the problem of the nature of language and the relationship between language and the world. His intellectual journey, one of the most compelling in twentieth century thought, is the detailed adventure told by Gordon Hunnings in The World and Language in Wittgenstein's Philosophy. This book surveys Wittgenstein's elucidation of how the world is represented in language, including the posthumously published material of his middle period. Early in his career, Wittgenstein's answer to the problem explored the representational connection between language and the world through the analogy of propositions as logical pictures of facts. Later, his mature answer elucidated the concept of the world as a construction of logical grammar. Hunnings shows how these shifting images of reality reflected in language also mirror the changes in Wittgenstein's philosophy.
Languages of Thought
Author: Bette G. HirschPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
This book is one in a series of publications intended to help improve secondary instruction by addressing a central educational issue: teaching children how to think. This volume focuses specifically on how students can be encouraged and helped to think critically from the outset of learning to read in a foreign language. It draws on both recent cognitive research and examples of actual classroom practice to demonstrate how thinking is integral to successful learning even in the most basic and commonplace classroom situations. The first chapter describes one approach to teaching the days of the week in a Hebrew class. The second recommends taking advantage of two resources students bring to the learning of English as a Second Language: their first language and knowledge of the world. Chapter 3 explores connections between reading, thinking, and second language learning. Techniques for teaching thoughtful second language reading are discussed in chapter 4, and strategies for getting more from the printed text are examined in chpater 5. The sixth chapter addresses the assessment of reading comprehension. A 32-item bibliography is included. (MSE)