Synopses & Reviews
Luria's last work, summing up his contributions to the study of the psychology of language. Discusses his general philosophical approach and theoretical and empirical research, providing a concise account of how he applied his ideas to the developmental, cross-cultural, and clinical issues of language and cognition. Emphasizes the author's views on language and speech, and how they lead to a set of questions and procedures in empirical research. Also examines some of the general concerns of contemporary Soviet Psychology.
Table of Contents
The Problem of Language and Consciousness.
The Word and Its Semantic Structure.
The Development of Word Meaning in Ontogenesis.
The Investigation of Concept Development.
The Objective Study of Semantic Fields.
The Development of the Role of Speech in Mental Processes: The Regulative Function of Speech and Its Development.
Inner Speech and the Cerebral Organization of the Regulative Function of Speech.
The Syntactic and Semantic Structure of the Sentence.
Complex Utterance Forms: Paradigmatic Components in Syntagmatic Structures.
Speech Production.
Basic Forms of the Speech Utterance: Oral (Monologic and Dialogic) and Written Speech.
Comprehension of the Components of a Speech Utterance: The Word and the Sentence.
Comprehension of the Sense of a Complex Message: Text and Subtext.
Language and Discursive Thinking: The Process of Deriving a Conclusion.
The Cerebral Organization and Pathological Disruption of Speech Production.
The Cerebral Organization of Pathological Disruption of Speech Comprehension.
References.
Author and Subject Indexes.