LEADER 04223nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910455446003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-04510-6 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674045101 035 $a(CKB)1000000000805677 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH23050953 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000268383 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11192781 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000268383 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10235485 035 $a(PQKB)10856770 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300763 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300763 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10331351 035 $a(OCoLC)923115970 035 $a(DE-B1597)589939 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674045101 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000805677 100 $a20010802d1993 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aVoices of the mind$b[electronic resource] $ea sociocultural approach to mediated action /$fJames V. Wertsch 205 $a1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed. 210 $aCambridge, MA $cHarvard University Press$d1993 215 $a1 online resource (viii, 169 p.) 300 $aOriginally published: 1991. 311 $a0-674-94303-1 311 $a0-674-94304-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [149]-162) and indexes. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tPreface -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Prerequisites -- $t2. A Sociocultural Approach to Mind -- $t3. Beyond Vygotsky: Bakhtin's Contribution -- $t4. The Multivoicedness of Meaning -- $t5. The Heterogeneity of Voices -- $t6. Sociocultural Setting, Social Languages, and Mediated Action -- $tReferences -- $tName Index -- $tSubject Index 330 $aIn Voices of the Mind, James Wertsch outlines an approach to mental functioning that stresses its inherent cultural, historical, and institutional context. A critical aspect of this approach is the cultural tools or ?mediational means? that shape both social and individual processes. In considering how these mediational means?in particular, language?emerge in social history and the role they play in organizing the settings in which human beings are socialized, Wertsch achieves fresh insights into essential areas of human mental functioning that are typically unexplored or misunderstood. Although Wertsch?s discussion draws on the work of a variety of scholars in the social sciences and the humanities, the writings of two Soviet theorists, L. S. Vygotsky (1896?1934) and Mikhail Bakhtin (1895?1975), are of particular significance. Voices of the Mind breaks new ground in reviewing and integrating some of their major theoretical ideas and in demonstrating how these ideas can be extended to address a series of contemporary issues in psychology and related fields. A case in point is Wertsch?s analysis of ?voice,? which exemplifies the collaborative nature of his effort. Although some have viewed abstract linguistic entities, such as isolated words and sentences, as the mechanism shaping human thought, Wertsch turns to Bakhtin, who demonstrated the need to analyze speech in terms of how it ?appropriates? the voices of others in concrete sociocultural settings. These appropriated voices may be those of specific speakers, such as one?s parents, or they may take the form of ?social languages? characteristic of a category of speakers, such as an ethnic or national community. Speaking and thinking thus involve the inherent process of ?ventriloquating? through the voices of other socioculturally situated speakers. Voices of the Mind attempts to build upon this theoretical foundation, persuasively arguing for the essential bond between cognition and culture. 606 $aPsychology 606 $aSocial psychology 606 $aCulture$xPsychological aspects 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPsychology. 615 0$aSocial psychology. 615 0$aCulture$xPsychological aspects. 676 $a150 700 $aWertsch$b James V$0307186 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455446003321 996 $aVoices of the mind$92122236 997 $aUNINA