Re: book on language theory

Kiyoshi Amano (kamano who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu)
Thu, 10 Jun 1999 13:19:22 +0900

10th June 1999
Dear Dr. Peter Jones,
I read your mail dated 7th June. I am a Japanese psychologist who
, perhaps, met you in the Conference in Moscow. Now I am staying in LCHC,
UCSD as a visiting scholar
I am ready to send you a copy my paper related with your problems .
In this paper I tried to discuss the processes of syntax acquisition by
children from the point of Vygotsky (IT(Js theory on speech activity.
Please let me known your address of mail. I will send it to you soon.
With regards,
K.Amano, LCHC, UCSD

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>7 june 1999
>from peter jones, sheffield hallam university, UK
>dear colleagues - would someone be able to give me a bit of advice on this
>one. i have drawn up a book proposal for a book (working title 'language
>and human activity') discussing in detail the philosophical, theoretical,
>methodological and empirical foundations and development of a theory of
>language within the vygotskian tradition and providing a critique, from
>this position, of contemporary linguistic theory. so i am starting with the
>marxist philosophical and scientific roots of vygotsy's approach to
>language, with discussions of the relevance of ilyenkov, mikhailov and
>others to language theory, and going on to look at what is specifically
>novel and productive about vygotsky's contribution specifically to language
>theory (rather than psychology as such). i will attempt to develop on this
>basis an approach to grammatical phenomena, as well as the semantic issues
>(sense, word meaning and concept) which are generally dealt with in this
>framework and provide a critique of contemporary grammatical theory
>(chomsky, halliday, cognitive linguistics) somewhere along the way. could
>anybody advise me on a publisher who might be interested in such a
>proposal?? i would be grateful for any suggestions!
>very best wishes
>peter
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