RE: signed languages, reflexivity, product semiotics
vera p john-steiner (vygotsky who-is-at unm.edu)
Thu, 19 Oct 1995 09:12:13 -0600 (MDT)
Eugene,
I am very far behind in my messages, but I just re-read yours in which
you refer to K. Sawyer's article (which is a great contribution to Vygotskian
analyses of creativity, I belive), and you asked me whether Backward and
foreword looks with the help of sketches, notation of generative ideas,
etc. contributes to a somewhat different approach than imporvisation to the
life of the mind. Yes, I think that is true; but improvisations can be
tapes, which may contribute to future analyses, recrafting, etc.
These are important ways in which creative acts are semiotically mediated,
Vera
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