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You hold in your hands a new book. Professor Dorothy Robbins dedicated it to one of the aspects of the cultural heritage of the famous psychologist L. S. Vygot­ sky. His activity (deyatelnost) was multifaceted. He had input into different fields of psychology: its methodology, psychology of art, pathopsychology, the psy­ chology of child and adolescent development, pedagogical psychology, general psychology, speech psychology, and other fields. Within his various activities he enriched not only psychology, but a variety of different sciences/academics­ pedagogics, defectology, psychiatry, literary critical theory, and linguistics. Some famous scientists feel that he left his mark in fields of various scientific areas that did not exist during his lifetime-such as psycho linguistics, semiotics, and cybernetics. Many psychologists and linguists conduct research in the spirit of his ideas that are contained within his approach of cultural-historical theory of human psy­ chological development, all created by Vygotsky as early as the 1920s and 1930s; these ideas have become popular among scientists in different countries in the last decades. The use of Vygotsky's theories, even beyond the frame of psychol­ ogy, turns out to be fruitful. I hope that this new book by Dorothy Robbins will help readers understand the deeper meaning of the scientific/academic research undertaken by my father and the scientific results that were obtained by him.

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Author:   Dorothy Robbins
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2001
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 0.90cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.261kg
ISBN:  

9781461354826

ISBN 10:   146135482
Pages:   144
Publication Date:   24 October 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

1. Background Information on Vygotskian Theory and Vygotsky and Man.- Days and Ages.- 2. Overview of L S. Vygotsky’s Psychological—Philosophical Theory.- Consciousness.- Lower Mental Processes and Higher Mental Processes.- Domains: Phylogeny, Ontogeny, Sociocultural History, Microgenesis.- 3. Tools—Psychological Tools—Internalization—Signs.- Tools.- Psychological and Technical Tools.- Internalization.- Signs.- History.- Thought—Word—Word Meanings—Language.- Word Meaning and Sense.- Inner Speech.- Concept Formation.- Scientific and Spontaneous Concepts.- Summary of Thought, Word Meaning, Language, and Concept Formation.- Dialectics.- Dialectics and Spinoza.- Problems Regarding Vygotsky’s Understanding of Dialectics.- Aesthetics.- Criticisms of Vygotsky and Responses.- Vygotsky’s Contributions.- 4. Chomskyan Linguistics and Vygotskian Semiotics.- American Linguistic Theory and Second Language Acquisition (SLA).- Rationalism (Chomskyan Perspective).- Innatism (Chomskyan Perspective).- Competence (Chomskyan Perspective).- Vygotskian Understanding of Rationalism, Innatism, Competence.- Rationalism (Vygotskian Perspective).- Innatism (Vygotskian Perspective).- Innatism and the Fodor Paradox.- Relativity (Representationalism and Perception).- Fodor—Vygotsky—Whorf (Continuation of Innatist Discussion).- Perception (Related to Innatism).- Competence (and Mental Representations—Vygotskian Perspective).- 5. Universal Grammar—SLA—Grammar from a Vygotskian Position.- Vygotskian Grammar (L1 and L2).- 6. Conclusion.- References.

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