Dear Vera,
Voluntary action/ act / behavior in the connection to the problematics of multilingualism is a new area for me. But I have been thinking /researching for a while the influence of mediational means on higher psychological functions in various cultural contexts. I love your idea of language completion (competition?). It will be fascinating to explore of whether and how some of the previously internalized higher psychological functions are being transformed when mediated by a different language.
I am very interested in the idea of the symposium. “CHAT perspectives on the multilingualism: Multivoiced and Multilingual Self”? Just brainstorming…I do not want to lose an issue of thinking and speech/ inner speech/ multilingualism. Have to run to a meeting. This is how creative collaboration is sometimes brutally terminated by institutional mandates…J What else is new?
What do you think?
Elina
Vera John-Steiner <vygotsky@unm.edu> wrote: Thanks, it worked. And I found the notion of voluntary action fascinating, because I,too, am aware of making some choices of how to explore thoughts in the process of linguistic completion. That is why I find inner speech a meaningful concept, it is closer to condensed meaning than to realized speech.Let us give some thought to a CHAT symposium on multilingualism Vera ----- Original Message ----- From: Elina Lampert-Shepel To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 5:18 PMSubject: Re: Thinking in a foreign language
Dear Vera,Sorry that my message was unreadable... maybe Columbia computers are on strike? Anyway, I attached the message as a file. Let me know if it is still unreadable.Elina
"Vera P. John-Steiner" <vygotsky@unm.edu> wrote:Dear Elena,
I am unable to read more than a couple of lines of your message, could
you resend it through another method. I don't understand why it is not
working.
Thanks, Vera
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I have on my table a violin string. It is free. I twist one end of it and it responds. It is free. But it is not free to do what a violin string is supposed to do - to produce music. So I take it, fix it in my violin and tighten it until it is taut. Only then it is free to be a violin string. Sir Rabindranath Tagore.
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