[Xmca-l] The final chapter of Vygotsky's Thinking and Speech: A reader's guide

[Peter Smagorinsky]

The final chapter of Vygotsky's
Thinking and Speech: A reader's guide
René van der Veer1,2 Ekaterina Zavershneva3
1Department of Education, Leiden University,
Leiden, 2311, The Netherlands
2School of Psychology, University of Magallanes,
Punta Arenas, 01855, Chile
3Department of Psychology, Moscow University
of Medicine and Dentistry,Moscow, 127473,
Russia
Correspondence
René van derVeer,Department of Education,
Leiden University, 2311 Leiden, The Netherlands.
Email:VEER@FSW.leidenuniv.nl
Abstract
The seventh and last chapter of Vygotsky's Thinking and Speech
(1934) is generally considered as his final word in psychology. It
is a long chapter with a complex argumentative structure in which
Vygotsky gives his view on the relationship between thinking and
speech. Vygotsky's biographers have stated that the chapter was
dictated in the final months of Vygotsky's life when his health was
rapidly deteriorating. Although the chapter is famous, its structure
has never been analyzed in any detail. In the present article we reveal
its rhetorical structure and show how Vygotsky drew on many hitherto
unrevealed sources to convince the reader of his viewpoint.
KEYWORDS
authorship, egocentric speech, inner speech, linguistics, Vygotsky



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