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Thought and Language - Revised Edition (English and Russian Edition) Revised Edition

Russian Edition by Lev S. Vygotsky (Author), Alex Kozulin (Editor)
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Since it was introduced to the English-speaking world in 1962, Lev Vygotsky's highly original exploration of human mental development has become recognized as a classic foundational work of cognitive science. Vygotsky analyzes the relationship between words and consciousness, arguing that speech is social in its origins and that only as children develop does it become internalized verbal thought.

Now Alex Kozulin has created a new edition of the original MIT Press translation by Eugenia Hanfmann and Gertrude Vakar that restores the work's complete text and adds materials that will help readers better understand Vygotsky's meaning and intentions. Kozulin has also contributed an introductory essay that offers new insight into the author's life, intellectual milieu, and research methods.

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    Mit Pr
  5. Publication date
    August 28, 1986
  6. Language
    English, Russian
  7. Dimensions
    5.25 x 0.75 x 8 inches
  8. Print length
    344 pages
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Alex Kozulin studied medical psychology and psychophysiology at the Moscow Institute of Medicine where he received a medical degree; he received his doctorate at the Moscow Institute of Psychology. Kozulin emigrated in 1979 and has since worked as research associate at Boston University's Center for the Philosophy and History of Science and taught history of psychology at Ben-Gurion University in Israel.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0262720108
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Mit Pr; Revised edition (August 28, 1986)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English, Russian
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 344 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780262720106
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0262720106
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.25 x 0.75 x 8 inches
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Michael Tonos
5.0 out of 5 stars The behavior of cognition
Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2002
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A contemporary of Piaget (developmental psychology)and Watson (behaviorism), Vygotsky launches a cogent critique and synthesis of these two scientific schools. His asserting that learning leads development is as fresh and valuable today as it was when he first wrote the text. Secondly, his calling for a functional analysis of language has been pursued only by the behavioral schools; a short-fall of cognitive and developmental psychology which focuses on the structure of language and hypothetical constructs of brain functioning. Vygotsky relied on observable behavior under contrived and natural conditions in developing his model of socially mediated learning. Although he does a bit of theorizing, his view of learning speech and thought--a skill taught and mediated by social forces--is an excellent bridge between the two schools of thought mentioned above. This book should be required reading for developmental psychologists, educators and behaviorists alike.
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Cathy Vuchetich
5.0 out of 5 stars My opinion
Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2008
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Vygotsky and Piaget are the forerunners in today's educational thinking. Even though they lived a long time ago they are still focused on in educational thinking. Piaget and Stern theories about language and development are included. The book is all emcompassing with language development and thinking . If you need to know about language development this is the book you should be reading.
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Anonymous
5.0 out of 5 stars Definitely worth reading.
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Classic work. Well worth the work of slogging through it.
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Susan
3.0 out of 5 stars Major printer's error - shoddy publicattion
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This review is not about the content of the book, but the shoddy publication of it by MIT Press, which one would think could do better. All the (many) footnotes after those for page 58 are missing! They're simply not there.
Followup note: I am further dismayed to discover that this is NOT, as it claims to be, a full translation of the Vygotsky 1934 edition - https://www.marxists.org/russkij/vygotsky/1934/thinking-speech.pdf . I am comparing the Russian and English for terminology help in translating some articles from the Vygotsky school of researchers, and I find that the English text is significantly abridged.
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Zentao
5.0 out of 5 stars A landmark...
Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2002
Vygotsky, who was a contemporary of Piaget, unfortunately never received nearly as much attention while still alive. Probably due to the fact that he was working in Russia and had a relatively short career his work seems to have taken a very long time to even get published for 'western' consumption. His theories also go against the grain of the dogma currently in vogue in psychology.
This book gives a brief overview of Vygotsky's life and career. Then it launches into Vygotsky's original manuscript which begins with a critique of some of the central themes of that time; oddly enough those themes are still being pursued by psychologists today. Vygotsky's critique is very interesting and demonstrates a very broad range of understanding of psychological, physical and philosophical knowledge throughout the section.
The second part of the book then advances Vygotsky's theories of thought and language development. And that is the crux of Vygotsky's theory: thought and language each develop in a manner that one might characterize as partially self-catalyzing in addition to behaving as one. Vygotsky also advanced some important ideas about child potential with his "zone of proximal development".
Vygotsky pointed out that development hinges on the social structure surrounding the child and is not similar to the idea of some computer operating system simply requiring some type of "load" instruction. That is, Vygotsky's work seems to dispel some of the hot air surrounding Chomsky's ideas about "deep grammar" structures existing and just waiting for the instructions to start working; instead thought and language develop, sometimes separately and sometimes requiring each other to act as catalysts.
Given recent advances in primate language studies, complex adaptive systems and Wittgenstein's contributions to the philosophy of systems I believe Vygotsky's work becomes all the more important and relevant. We are only just starting to grasp the importance of thinking about development in a systems mode as opposed to the old way of reductionism (and the weird dogmatic offshoot of this: strict materialism).
This is a must-read for anyone interested in learning about how we develop. Other interesting ideas and overviews can be found in Bogdan's "Minding Minds" and Faber's "Objectivity and Human Perception". Then there is the burgeoning field of complexity where a good general overview can be found in "Signs of Life". And for those who really want to get deeper, read some of the recent work done in EEG and meditation to help kids with ADD and other problems.
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Jeff
5.0 out of 5 stars Thought and Language - L.S. Vygotsky
Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2014
"Several years ago I became enamored with the work of Marxist developmental theorist Lev Semenovich Vygotsky. I have read and cited multiple articles by him as well as two of his most prominent books, including an English translation of Thought and Language (Vygotsky 1986). I was later given a copy of an earlier translation of that same text (Vygotsky 1962), and only now have I gotten around to reading it. This post is not a comparison of the two translations (though where the wording differs between translations I include footnotes with the alternate wording), but rather a discussion of Vygotsky’s theory of concept development and my application of that theory specifically to how children develop an understanding of the concept of gender." Read more at: [...]
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Sasha
5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting book.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 23, 2020
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Very interesting book and thoughts by a great thinker.
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mulgawire
5.0 out of 5 stars Original Thinker/Classic Text
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This is the famous work, written by a man who arrived first at the clear and heady summit of child development from within the confines of Stalin's Russia. This is a must read.
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Daarisha
5.0 out of 5 stars Psychology students
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