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Language, literacy, and cognitive development : the development and consequences of symbolic communication / edited by Eric Amsel, James P. Byrnes.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Jean Piaget Symposium series
- The Jean Piaget Symposium series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Language acquisition--Congresses.
- Language acquisition.
- Communication--Congresses.
- Communication.
- Literacy--Congresses.
- Literacy.
- Cognition in children--Congresses.
- Cognition in children.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002.
- Summary:
- "Language, Literacy, and Cognitive Development" addresses the impact of language and literacy on cognitive development. Top researchers examine the cognitive significance of the growth in children's ability to express themselves symbolically, whether that involves communicating linguistically, mathematically, logically, or through some other symbol system expressed in speech, gesture, notations, or some other means. The book contributes to refining and answering questions regarding the nature, origin, and development of symbolic communication in all its forms, and their consequences for the cognitive development of the younger child at home and the older child at school.
- Contents:
- 1. Language, Literacy, and Thought: Forming a Partnership / Ellin Kofsky Scholnick 3
- Part II Verbal and Gestural Communication and Cognitive Development
- 2. Developing a Socially Shared Symbolic System / Katherine Nelson, Lea Kessler Shaw 27
- 3. A Developmental-Functionalist Approach to Mental State Talk / Nancy Budwig 59
- 4. Relational Language and Relational Thought / Dedre Gentner, Jeffrey Loewenstein 87
- 5. From Thought to Hand: Structured and Unstructured Communication Outside of Conventional Language / Susan Goldin-Meadow 121
- Part III Notational Systems and Cognitive Development
- 6. What Writing Does to the Mind / David R. Olson 153
- 7. Symbolic Communication in Mathematics and Science: Co-Constituting Inscription and Thought / Richard Lehrer, Leona Schauble 167
- 8. Social Relational Knowing in Writing Development / Colette Daiute 193
- 9. Symbolic Communication and Cognitive Development: Conclusions and Prospects / Eric Amsel, James P. Byrnes 233.
- Notes:
- Chapters of this book were originally presented at the 28th Annual Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society held from June 11-13, 1998, in Chicago, Ill.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 080583494X
- OCLC:
- 48074112
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