Re: [xmca] Vygotsky, Leontiev and Luria

[Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net>]

David, I just wanted to respond to this observation about word and act. 
I had this line double underlined in my copy of LSV CW too, but as you 
note, it is what it is said against which is important. It is said 
against the idea that forming a string of phonemes with the muscles of 
the larynx and lungs etc is "just another" action, like plucking a 
cherry or squeezing a pimple. Clearly, linguistic practice is, in this 
sense, an activity of an entirely different order. Metholodogically 
though, word meaning retains its significance as an artefact-mediated 
action, and the relation of word meaning to concept retains its parallel 
to the relation of action to activity.

Andy

David Kellogg wrote:
> They support Gutzmann's argument that aphasia is sui generis: "To consider speech as a more particular case of action," they say, "means to depend on an incorrect definition of the concept of action." (p. 66 of the Collected Works, Vol. 6). Speech is not a kind of action or "activity"; it's different in kind.
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