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

[mike cole]

Thanks Peter

For discussion?

Mike

On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 3:17 AM Peter Smagorinsky <smago@uga.edu> wrote:

> 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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