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RE: [xmca] nonverbal representations
The section I am working on is a brief historical overview of the study of
mental imagery conceptions of nonverbal mental representations and their
role in literacy development. For example, here is one quote of Vygotky's
that is problematic for me.
In Kozulin's translation of Thought and Language (1986): "We are therefore
forced to conclude that the fusion of though and speech, in adults as well
as in children, is a phenomenon limited to a circumscribed area. Nonverbal
thought and nonintellectual speech do not participate in this fusion and are
affected only indirectly by the processes of verbal thought" (p. 89).
Does anyone have another interpretation here? This is in Chapter 4 in The
Genetic Roots of Thought and Speech at the end of part III.
-----Original Message-----
From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu] On
Behalf Of Martin Packer
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 8:26 PM
To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
Subject: Re: [xmca] sense and sensibility
What's your project, Monica?
Martin
On Apr 28, 2011, at 8:16 PM, Monica Hansen wrote:
> Thank you so much! Definitely useful for my current project-a small part
of
> my dissertation, which is turning out to be a lot about semiotics, who
knew?
> I thought it was just about words and meaning.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu] On
> Behalf Of Martin Packer
> Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 5:22 PM
> To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
> Subject: Re: [xmca] sense and sensibility
>
> This from Morris' dissertation: Symbolism and reality: a study in the
nature
> of mind.
>
> "The essay will aim to show that thought and mind are not entities, nor
even
> processes involving a psychical substance distinguishable from the rest of
> reality, but are explicable as the functioning of parts of the experience
of
> an organism as symbols to that organism of other parts of experience.
Being
> then the symbolic portion *of* experience, the psychical or mental can
> neither be sharply opposed to the rest of experience, nor identified with
> the whole of experience. And since experience will be shown to be a
portion
> of reality, it follows that mind and reality can never be utterly
separated
> nor indiscriminately identified" (3-4)
>
> On Apr 28, 2011, at 7:09 PM, Martin Packer wrote:
>
>> Monica,
>>
>> Charles W. Morris (May 23, 1901, Denver, Colorado - January 15, 1979,
> Gainesville, Florida) was an American semiotician and philosopher. George
> Herbert Mead directed his doctoral dissertation on a symbolic theory of
> mind, completed in 1925. His students included semiotician Thomas A.
Sebeok.
> For some years I've had his "Six Theories of Mind" (1932) on the shelf,
and
> recently found time to read it. (It's available on the web.)
>>
>> Martin
>>
>
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