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Coordination of speaking and acting in the second year of life

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Gupta, S; Valsiner, J
Published in: Mind, Culture, and Activity
January 1, 1999

We offer a conceptual reformulation of the relations between two major psychological functions, speaking and acting. The role of speech in regulating action is traditionally presented in cultural-historical psychology as a gradual takeover and control of the flow of actions by emerging speech functions. We expand this notion to include a variety of coordinated forms between speaking and acting in which the speech-controlling-action model is but one of the possibilities. Human development can be characterized as a constant overproduction of action and speech efforts, which are context-bound, and from which the constructive selection of surviving speech and action forms emerge. Ontogeny thus entails the selective attrition of speech and action forms that emerge through episodes of individual and individual-social other activity. Empirical evidence from a short-term longitudinal study of toddlers' speaking and acting in everyday-life problem-solving situations is provided to indicate how different forms of speech-action relations coexist and may transform into one another. Copyright © 1999, Regents of the University of California on behalf of the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition.

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Mind, Culture, and Activity

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1532-7884

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1074-9039

Publication Date

January 1, 1999

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6

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2

Start / End Page

143 / 159

Related Subject Headings

  • Education
  • 17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
  • 16 Studies in Human Society
  • 13 Education
 

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Gupta, S., & Valsiner, J. (1999). Coordination of speaking and acting in the second year of life. Mind, Culture, and Activity, 6(2), 143–159. https://doi.org/10.1080/10749039909524721
Gupta, S., and J. Valsiner. “Coordination of speaking and acting in the second year of life.” Mind, Culture, and Activity 6, no. 2 (January 1, 1999): 143–59. https://doi.org/10.1080/10749039909524721.
Gupta S, Valsiner J. Coordination of speaking and acting in the second year of life. Mind, Culture, and Activity. 1999 Jan 1;6(2):143–59.
Gupta, S., and J. Valsiner. “Coordination of speaking and acting in the second year of life.” Mind, Culture, and Activity, vol. 6, no. 2, Jan. 1999, pp. 143–59. Scopus, doi:10.1080/10749039909524721.
Gupta S, Valsiner J. Coordination of speaking and acting in the second year of life. Mind, Culture, and Activity. 1999 Jan 1;6(2):143–159.

Published In

Mind, Culture, and Activity

DOI

EISSN

1532-7884

ISSN

1074-9039

Publication Date

January 1, 1999

Volume

6

Issue

2

Start / End Page

143 / 159

Related Subject Headings

  • Education
  • 17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
  • 16 Studies in Human Society
  • 13 Education