Tuesday, February 14th at 9:00am Pacific Standard Time.
The 5th Session in the Seminar on Imagination & Creativity in Vygotsky’s Work. Contact Francine Smolucha at lsmolucha@hotmail.com for the ZOOM link.
The Fifth Session introduces Cognitive Linguistics, an enterprise that encompasses linguistics, cultural worldviews, neuroscience, and conceptual metaphors. For Vygotsky verbal thought emerges from the intersection of non-verbal sensory motor thinking and non-semantic vocalizations. The developmental relationship between the domains of non-verbal thinking and verbal thought is of particular interest to us as we explore the role of dance, gesture, visual thinking, metaphor, and music in creative imagination. The resulting psychological systems in turn shape not only our communications with others and with ourselves, but our world views as well.
Readings:
“What is Cognitive Linguistic? A new paradigm in the study of language and the mind” by Vyvyan Evans, Psychology Today (July 14, 2019).
“What do we Mean by Worldview? The Sense we give to our World” by James W. Underhill.
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