Re: Agency

vera p john-steiner (vygotsky who-is-at unm.edu)
Thu, 26 Oct 1995 09:54:27 -0600 (MDT)

Graham,
I find your report on private speech talk very interesting as this has
been an area of central interest to me. I am sure you are familiar with
Berk and Diaz' book on the subject. I am not sure that the functional
differences between self talk and audience oriented utterances are
an adequate base to make the more epistomological points suggested
by the agency discussion. But " selftalk" definitely is part of a
construction of consistency across situations by the person/agent engaged in
experiencing, thinking, living. It provides an excellent methodological
window for examining some of these issues,
Vera

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