Hi Elisa,
I don't speak Portugese, but when I saw your messages, and others, I like
it. It reminds me of my English privilege and just feels right that you
and others for whom English is not the first language, don't have to carry
all that langugae load all the time on the list. So thank you. Leigh
>Eva Ekeblad wrote:
> > Take it as an invitation to talk about your
> > research interests if you'd like to. And please, all ye lurkers, feel
> > invited, too: what are YOUR interests that brought you "here"?
>
>
> I'm a lurker, too. I usually participate a lot in the discussion lists I
>subscribe, but this one I find a bit difficult. I've been reading Cultural
>Psychology, and find the concepts of Activity Theory very interesting. But
>sometimes I lose the thread of discussions in this list, I'm not sure
>whether it is because some concepts and authors are new to me, or it is more
>difficult to follow messages written in English. I found a message by Mike
>Cole about the relation or similarity between Bakhtin and Vygotsky specially
>useful for the work I'm doing now. But a bit cryptic too, I mean, I may say
>I only understand half of the comments in this message I'm mentioning. If
>you can tolerate some naive questioning, I may send a message regarding this
>topic to the list.
>
> I may also send a message about the research work I'm doing now.
>
> Also, I must explain why I sent a message in Portuguese to the list. I
>was a bit surprised to receive a message in Portuguese about a polemic on a
>film called Dogma, a polemic that in my view is a bit misplaced. Since the
>list delivered this message to my inbox, I thought I had the right to reply.
>I was very tired, having come back from a meeting, and did not have the
>energy to write a translation of the message. I also do not know if the
>message was part of a thread, or simply a fragment of conversation that
>found its way to the list. Anyway, I replied, and may translate the reply
>later, but this is not the focus of the list.
>
> Best regards to all,
>
> Elisa Sayeg
> cyborg@uol.com.br
>
> (psychologist, doctoral student, FE-USP - School of Education, University
>of Sao Paulo, Brasil).
>
>
>
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