Charles Nelson wrote:
>
> Ricardo wrote:
>
> >If Luria and Vygotsky were wright, the use of words by speach makes the
> >thinking process radically different. And I deduce from this that
> >thinking in english is something very different than thinking in
> >portuguese, or russian or spanish etc
>
> It depends on what we mean by language. If referring to
> syntactical-phonological differences, they exist but their influence need
> not be, and probably isn't, "very" big. If we speak of the lexical and
> sociocultural associations, then the difference can be very large, and so
> different cultural groups--whether speaking different languages or the
> "same" language--may think very differently.
>
> Charles Nelson
> c.nelson who-is-at mail.utexas.edu