Sociocultural Situatedness

2008-08-27
Sociocultural Situatedness
Author: Roslyn M. Frank
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 453
Release: 2008-08-27
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110199114
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The contributions contained in the second volume of the two-volume set Body, Language and Mind introduce and elaborate upon the concept of sociocultural situatedness, understood broadly as the way in which minds and cognitive processes are shaped, both individually and collectively, by their interaction with socioculturally contextualized structures and practices; and, furthermore, how these structures interact, contextually, with language and can become embodied in it. Drawing on theoretical concepts and analytical tools within the purview of cognitive linguistics and related fields, the volume explores the relationship between body, language and mind, focusing on the complex mutually reinforcing relationships holding between the sociocultural contextualisation of language and, inversely, the linguistic contextualisation of culure. Stated differently, the notion of sociocultural situatedness allows for language to be seen as a cultural activity and at the same time as a subtle mechanism for organizing culture and thought. The volume offers a representative, multi- and interdisciplinary collection of new papers on sociocultural situatedness, bringing together for the first time a wide variety of perspectives and case studies directed explicitly to elucidating the analytical potential of this concept for cognitive linguists and other researchers working in allied fields such as AI, discourse studies and cognitive anthropology. The book brings together several core issues related to the notion of sociocultural situatedness, some of which have been addressed previously, although to a large degree sporadically and from a variety of disciplinary perspectives without fully exploring the possible analytical advantages of this concept as a tool for investigating the role of culturally entrenched schemata in cognition and language. In short, this is the first comprehensive survey of sociocultural situatedness theory.

Body, Language, and Mind: Sociocultural situatedness

2007
Body, Language, and Mind: Sociocultural situatedness
Author: Tom Ziemke
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 460
Release: 2007
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9783110196184
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Includes papers, which introduce and elaborate upon the concept of sociocultural situatedness, understood as the way in which minds and cognitive processes are shaped, both individually and collectively, and by their interaction with culturally contextualized structures and practices.

Sociocultural Studies of Mind

1995-04-28
Sociocultural Studies of Mind
Author: James V. Wertsch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 270
Release: 1995-04-28
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780521476430
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Based on three unifying ideas, this landmark volume defines an approach to sociocultural psychology which the authors hope will continue to be debated and redefined. It addresses the question of how mental functioning is related to its cultural, historical and institutional settings.

Vygotsky and Pedagogy

2002-11-01
Vygotsky and Pedagogy
Author: Harry Daniels
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2002-11-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1134558287
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The theories of Vygotsky are central to any serious discussion of children's learning processes. Vygotsky argues that children do not develop in isolation, rather learning takes place when the child is interacting with their social environment. It is the responsibility of the teacher to establish an interactive instructional situation in the classroom, where the child is an active learner and the teacher uses their knowledge to guide learning. This has many implications for those in the educational field. This book explores the growing interest in Vygotsky and the pedagogic implications of the body of work that is developing under the influence of his theories. It provides an overview of the ways in which the original writing has been extended and identifies areas for future development. The author considers how these developments are creating new and important possibilities for the practices of teaching and learning in school and beyond, and illustrates how Vygotskian theory can be applied in the classroom. The book is intended for students and academics in education and the social sciences. It will be of interest to all those who wish to develop an analysis of pedagogic practice within and beyond the field of education.

Contexts for Learning

1996
Contexts for Learning
Author: Ellice A. Forman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 408
Release: 1996
Genre: Child development
ISBN: 0195109775
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This work presents landmark research concerning the vital dynamics of childhood psychological development. It's origin can be traced to the late 1970s, when several psychologists began to challenge existing notions of cognitive development by suggesting that such functioning is bound to specific contexts and that cognitive development is based on the mastery of culturally defined ways of speaking, thinking, and acting. About the same time, several translations were made available in this country of the seminal work of Vygotsky, the noted theoretician, offering a conceptual base on which these workers could build. This volume, with contributions from many of the scholars who pioneered this area and translated the work of Vygotsky, looks at the complex mechanisms by which children acquire the cultural and linguistic tools to carry out cognitive activities and explores the implications of this research for education. The book is organized around three main parts: Discourse and Learning in Classroom Practice, Interpersonal Relations in Formal and Informal Education, and The Sociocultural Institutions of Formal and Informal Education.; An afterword by Jacqueline Goodnow suggests new directions for sociocultural research and education. The intended audience is composed of developmental, educational, and cognitive psychologists, along with advanced students in developmental and educational psychology.

Approaches to Language, Culture, and Cognition

2014-08-28
Approaches to Language, Culture, and Cognition
Author: M. Yamaguchi
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2014-08-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137274824
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Approaches to Language, Culture and Cognition aims to bring cognitive linguistics and linguistic anthropology closer together, calling for further investigations of language and culture from cognitively-informed perspectives against the backdrop of the current trend of linguistic anthropology.

Exploring Discourse Strategies in Social and Cognitive Interaction

2016-03-31
Exploring Discourse Strategies in Social and Cognitive Interaction
Author: Manuela Romano
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2016-03-31
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027267227
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This volume offers readers interested in Discourse Analysis and/or Socio-Cognitive models of language a closer view of the relationship between discourse, cognition and society by disclosing how the cognitive mechanisms of discourse processing depend on shared knowledge and situated cognition. An inter- and multidisciplinary approach is proposed that combines theories and methodologies coming from Conceptual Metaphor Theory, Multimodal Metaphor Theory, Critical Discourse Analysis, Narratology, Systemic Functional Linguistics, Appraisal Theory, together with the most recent developments of Socio-Cognitive Linguistics, for the analysis of real communicative events, which range from TV reality shows, commercials, digital stories or political debates, to technical texts, architectural memorials, newspapers and autobiographical narratives. Still, several key notions are recurrent in all contributions -embodiment, multimodality, conceptual integration, metaphor, and creativity- as the fundamental constituents of discourse processing. It is only through this wide-ranging epistemological and empirical approach that the complexity of discourse strategies in real contexts, i.e. human communication, can be fully comprehended, and that discourse analysis and cognitive linguistics can be brought closer together.

Formative Assessment and Science Education

2005-12-21
Formative Assessment and Science Education
Author: Nigel Bell
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2005-12-21
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0306472279
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This work documents the findings of a research project which investigated the ways in which teachers and students used formative assessment to improve the teaching and learning of science in some New Zealand classrooms. It will be of interest to graduate students and researchers, as well as teacher educators, curriculum developers, and assessment specialists.

Handbook of Moral Development

2005-07-06
Handbook of Moral Development
Author: Melanie Killen
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 809
Release: 2005-07-06
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1135619174
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The psychological study of moral development has expanded greatly, both in terms of the diversity of theoretical perspectives that are represented in the field, as well as in the range of topics that have been studied. This Handbook of Moral Development represents the diversity and multidisciplinary influences on current theorizing about the psychological study of moral development and the range and broad scope of topics being considered by scholars in the field.