Re: sense/meaning

From: Peter Smagorinsky (smago@peachnet.campuscwix.net)
Date: Sun Apr 02 2000 - 13:18:01 PDT


Mike, good questions that plague me still--I think the distinction is
important, if not always clear to me.

Briefly, as I understand Vygotsky, sense refers to that which is
unarticulated (inner speech) and meaning refers to that which is
articulated (represented). Any help out there on this?

Peter

At 10:59 AM 4/2/00 -0700, you wrote:

>hi Peter --
>
>In reading your paper, I kept finding myself wondering about the role
>of a sense/meaning distinction in your thinking. A lot of he time I felt
>myself wanting to replace uses of the term meaning with the term sense.
>Perhaps a way to get at my question is with the following question: Is
>it useful to speak of "personal meaning" or "making meaning of the text"
>and if so when (in contrast with spaking of "personal sense" and
>"making sense of the text."
>
>I believe that my confusions are related to issue of designative and
>expressive aspects of meaning and whether they are completmentary or
>incommsurable, but am too confused to be sure.
>mike



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