Language, Literacy, and Cognitive Development: The Development and Consequences of Symbolic Communication

ISBN-13: 9780805834949 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 282 str.

Eric Amsel; James Brynes

Opis

This book's goal is to go beyond traditional accounts of human symbol skills to examine the development and consequences of symbolic communication. The editors explore the significance of communicating symbolically as a means for understanding human symbol skills. Symbolic communication may play a central role in the representation and manipulation of symbols, processes which seem to have gotten more attention than communication has. The process of communicating with symbols, perhaps to oneself, or to a real or hypothetical other, may be a central element in explanations of what information comes to be symbolically represented and how those symbols are mentally manipulated.

Spis treści

Contents: Preface. Part I: Introduction. E.K. Scholnick, Language, Literacy, and Thought: Forming a Partnership. Part II: Verbal and Gestural Communication and Cognitive Development. K. Nelson, L.K. Shaw, Developing a Socially Shared Symbolic System. N. Budwig, A Developmental-Functionalist Approach to Mental State Talk. D. Gentner, J. Loewenstein, Relational Language and Relational Thought. S. Goldin-Meadow, From Thought to Hand: Structured and Unstructured Communication Outside of Conventional Language. Part III: Notational Systems and Cognitive Development. D.R. Olson, What Writing Does to the Mind. R. Lehrer, L. Schauble, Symbolic Communication in Mathematics and Science: Co-Constituting Inscription and Thought. C. Dauite, Social Relational Knowing in Writing Development. Part IV: Conclusion. E. Amsel, J.P. Byrnes, Symbolic Communication and Cognitive Development: Conclusions and Prospects.

O autorze

Eric Amsel, James P. Byrnes