Re: some joint activity re contextless reading?

Peter Smagorinsky (smago who-is-at peachnet.campuscwix.net)
Sun, 28 Mar 1999 09:18:06 -0500

I think that the notion of a dialect is useful here--that language
represents ways of thinking but in turn serves as a set of signs that
guides ways of thinking. I've always assumed this to be a Vygotskian
principle about the relationship between thinking and speech.

Peter

At 11:12 PM 3/27/99 -0700, you wrote:
>While whorf felt that language shaped thought to the social
>perspectives, I think that language develops to express cultural views.
>It is not so much that thought is different in different languages but
>rather language results from different social- and personal- ways of
>thinking.
>Ken Goodman
>--