PS--Work too much? You jest!!
Bach is playing in the background. the garden has been watered, our
dog has
taken us for a walk, we saw a fantastic
production of Cyrano translated by Anthony Burgess that had my mind
reeling
about the magic of language, ventriloquation,
the connection between ashes and diamonts, writting vs speaking,
and lot
more. And there is so much interesting here at xmca to think about.
Not to
mention the few pages of George Elliot that i get through each day.
Amazing
to read long passages in which she is
giving voice to a form of zionism that has contemporary relevance
that is
mind boggling.
Work? Work is when our faculty return and classes start. Then the
horrendous
massacre of a great public university will make
getting up in the morning a real chore because in addition to
financially
overburdened students, the faculty will be fighting for
their perks in the name of virtue, a situation that provides an iron
clad
guarantee of unpleasantness.
m
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net>
wrote:
Thanks for that Mike. Ask a question on this list and the answer is
not
long in coming. A case of joint attention I guess.
As I understand this excerpt, the idea of pointing growing out of
attempted
grasping in ontogenetic development is ruled out, but the "precision
grasping" movement with thumb and forefinger and the pointing
gesture with
thumb *not* opposing the forefinger are co-evolved reflexes (?) and
the
discovery is pushed back from Vygotsky and Dewey to Darwin (sort
of). And
co-attention (gaze-following) precedes pointing at distant objects.
All of which points to the communicative functions developing
ontogenetically in advance of I->object functions. Is that right?
And we
should take the grasping-then-pointing idea really just as part of
our
history.
thanks Mike.
you work too hard!
Andy
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