Thought and Word  

Oleh:

Miller, Ronald B.

Jenis: Article from Books - E-Book
Dalam koleksi: Vygotsky in Perspective, page 177-202.
Topik: Kinds of Speech; Word Meaning; Inner Speech; Written Speech; Plane of Thought; Plane of Thought Itself; Verbal Thinking
Fulltext: Thought and Word.pdf (197.09KB)

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The ?nal chapter of Vygotsky’s book Thinking and Speech bears the derivative title ‘Thought and word’ and suggests that this chapter re?ects the concerns of the work as a whole rather than a part contributing to the whole. The chapter is also distinctive in other respects. Dictated in the ?nal months of his life, it represents not only the end of a book but the last evidence we have of Vygotsky’s most mature thought. It is strange that relatively little attention has been paid to this chapter in the form of extended commentary. One speculative reason is that in this chapter we encounter a very different portrait of Vygotsky, in which the other side of the coin, the head rather than the tail, is presented. In this chapter, Vygotsky takes a decisive turn inwards and, in his opening words (1987, p. 243), reminds the reader that ‘Our investigation began with an attempt to clarify the internal relationships between thought and word at the most extreme stages of phylogenetic and ontogenetic development.’ Contrary to a particular contemporary picture of Vygotsky as the patron of a kind of extraverted psychology in which explanations for human behaviour are sought on the outside beyond the skin and beyond consciousness, ‘in society’, or ‘in culture’, or ‘distributed’ among tools of various kinds, a different view emerges in this ?nal chapter. Far from any denial of the centrality of the individual person, Vygotsky engages with the innermost recesses of human consciousness and leaves little room for doubt about the ultimate focus of his life’s work. Signi?cantly, the chapter concludes with a sentence that could serve as an epigraph for his theory: ‘The meaningful word is a microcosm of human consciousness’

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