Showing papers by "Jaan Valsiner published in 1999"
TL;DR: The authors argue that personal contruction of goal orientations becomes a necessary super-organizer of such complex system of personal-cultural means, such that examination of phenomena of volition returns to the stage of the theater of psychological research as a centrally relevant topic.
Abstract: Miltenburg and Singer outline a direction of analysis of therapy processes that go beyond the realm of therapy and touch upon basic processes of human cultural development. Human beings regulate their conduct by creating hierarchically organized and often personified semiotic means to regulate their ongoing relationships with the environment. These means allow for changing, maintaining, and aggravating current psychological states. The structure of these control mechanisms entails multiple levels that regulate one another, aside from organizing thinking, feeling, and action. I will argue that personal contruction of goal orientations becomes a necessary super-organizer of such complex system of personal-cultural means, such that examination of phenomena of volition returns to the stage of the theater of psychological research as a centrally relevant topic.
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TL;DR: The authors take an intellectual tour to the region of discursive psychology, with a focus on "discourse analysis" as its methodological extension, and provide an opportunity for a more sustained examination of discourse analysis in the study of language use, culture and psychological processes.
Abstract: In this issue of Culture & Psychology, we take an intellectual tour to the region of discursive psychology, with a focus on ‘discourse analysis’ as its methodological extension. Although discursive and narrative perspectives are certainly not new to the pages of Culture & Psychology (Bamberg, 1997; Edwards, 1995; Parker, 1995; Radley & Kennedy, 1997; Shi-xu, 1995), the present issue provides an opportunity for a more sustained examination of discourse analysis in the study of language use, culture and psychological processes. Discourse analysis is not a uniform category of a single methodological orientation (for overviews see Schiffrin, 1994; Van Dijk, 1997a, 1997b), and loosely overlaps with conversation analysis and narratology. The analyses of talk and texts presented in this issue’s two featured articles are informed by conversation analysis, an approach to discourse analysis that is rooted in ethnomethodology (Garfinkel, 1967; Heritage, 1984). The target articles can be viewed as a small sample of what is currently happening in the field. We make no pretense that the material in this issue is a representative sample of this wide, busy and burgeoning field. Rather, what we have in this issue is an attempt at intellectual dissection of two empirically focused examples, through commentaries by authors who have been purposefully selected for their divergent viewpoints.
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TL;DR: 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 as discussed by the authors, and this notion is expanded to include a variety of coordinated forms between speaking and acting in which the speech-controlling-action model is but one of the possibilities.
Abstract: 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 s...
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TL;DR: The distinction between discourse analytic and cultural psychological perspectives is made by as discussed by the authors, who make a distinction between empirical and qualitatively oriented approaches for analysis of psychological issues, focusing on the use of language-based materials.
Abstract: In Discourse and Cognition, Edwards undertakes a major organizational task of making sense of the variety of contemporary approaches that— while labeling themselves differently1—can be seen to relate to cultural psychology. All these approaches concentrate on the use of languagebased materials for analysis of psychological issues. All of them are primarily empirical, and qualitatively oriented. Yet there remain clear distinctions between discourse analytic and cultural psychological perspectives. As Edwards states: