Re: [xmca] Toolsfor thought (corrigendum)

Thank you, Anton! certainly 1975- it is too late here in Jerusalem...

On 7/5/07, Anton Yasnitsky <the_yasya@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Great, Bella, this is really interesting: thank you very much!
>
> Just a small corrigendum:
>
> "in December 1995 J.Bruner visited Luria in Moscow" - you most certainly
> meant "in December 1975", I believe, right?
>
>
> --- bella kotik <bella.kotik@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Dear David,
> > I found you thoughts provoked by my paper really interesting and I have
> > to
> > think more about your ideas.
> > I do not know where exactly you found that
> > " *in the sixties, did Luria play around with the idea that Chomsky's
> > "deep
> > structures" were located in the brain?".*
> > but I felt immediately that something here sound strange. First Luria
> > always
> > stressed the general approach to HPF "not localised or located, bur
> > organized Systemically- Dynamically".
> > Also my feeling was based on a vivid memory of the following event: in
> > December 1995 J.Bruner visited Luria in Moscow (for a week I was his
> > secretary, guide and translator and he told me that he came especially
> > and
> > mainly to see Alexander Romanovich). I had to translate his lecture.
> > Bruner
> > started the lecture with the following words: "I want to start with an
> > obituary *(here I hesitated because I did not know this word and Luria
> > decided to translate himself and continued)* this is not an obituary for
> > my
> > dear friend Noam Chomsky whom I wish long and happy life, but for his
> > dying
> > theory. And Here at the Moscow University, among Vygotsky's followers I
> > find the best and understanding audience"- from that moment Luria
> > continued
> > to interpret the rest of the lecture. Actually it was a parallel
> > lecture- he
> > not just translated, but explained every point.
> > I understand that memoirs and intuition is not enough to defend thesis
> > that
> > while Luria appreciated Chomsky's role in development of linguistics, he
> > had
> > a negative attitude towards his attempts to interpret relations between
> > language and cognition. So I found his paper about Chomsky in Russian
> > and
> > thanks to Internet found that it was published also in English
> >
> > LURIA A.R. 1975. Scientific perspectives and philosophical dead ends in
> > modern linguistics. *Cognition *3/4 377.
> > It is not sixties, but Luria. I will not start citing, please read it.
> >
> > Sincerely yours Bella Kotik-Friedgut
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Sincerely yours Bella Kotik-Friedgut
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