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Throughout its evolution, Piaget's theory has placed meaning at the center of all attempts to understand the nature and development of knowing. Addressing philosophical, theoretical, and empirical perspectives, this title, first published in 1994, provides an integrated exploration of the nature and development of meaning.
List of contents
List of Contributors. Preface. 1. Contexts of Meaning: The Computational and the Embodied Mind
Willis F. Overton 2. The Communal Creation of Meaning
Kenneth J. Gergen 3. What Is a Conceptual System?
George Lakoff 4. Design for a Theory of Meaning
Mark Turner 5. A Developmental Analysis of Cognitive Semantics: What Is the Role of Metaphor in the Construction of Knowledge and Reasoning?
Ellin Kofsky Scholnick and Kelly Cookson 6. Word Meaning and What It Takes to Learn Them: Reflections on the Piaget-Chomsky Debate
Ray Jackendoff 7. The Foundations of Logic and the Foundations of Cognition
John Macnamara 8. Affective Dimensions of Meaning
Terrance Brown 9. From Acting to Understanding: The Comparative Development of Meaning
Jonas Langer 10. Meaning and Expression
Lois Bloom 11. Constructivist Explanations for Language Acquisition May Be Insufficient: The Case for Language-Specific Principles
Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff and Lauretta Reeves 12. Plot, Plight, and Dramatism: Interpretation at Three Ages
Carol Feldman, Jerome Bruner, David Kalmar and Bobbi Renderer 13. Semantic Naturalism: The Problem of Meaning and Naturalistic Psychology
Richard F. Kitchener. Author Index. Subject Index.
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Willis F. Overton and David S. Palermo
Summary
Throughout its evolution, Piaget's theory has placed meaning at the center of all attempts to understand the nature and development of knowing. Addressing philosophical, theoretical, and empirical perspectives, this title, first published in 1994, provides an integrated exploration of the nature and development of meaning.
