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Larry, The text of your message seems to have got a bit jumbled. Can you clarify your question? Matin On Apr 22, 2011, at 9:41 AM, Larry Purss wrote: > Anna and Martin > > Anna wrote > > For kids, words do not partition the world in objects mainly, the way they > do for grownups. Not even nouns. For the little (and cute) ones, words > translate into routines - ways of doing things. One can see it with > particular clarity in math. To give just one basic example out of the > infinity of possibilities: Numbers begin their existence as procedures of > counting - something you can see when your repeated question "How many > cookies do I have here?" makes the child to repeat the counting rather than > prompting her to simply state the last word she has prfeviously uttered in > this process. It will take time till the reification/ objectification of > number words occurs. Just like "bottle" serves a baby as a trigger for the > routine of getting fed, so are the words such as "many", "more", etc. mere > prompts fos r counting. In this latter case, however, unlike in the former, > this procedure (counting) is a social game rather than anything that would > have any direct practical significance. > e difference is > Martin you described how thw terms "apple" and "pomme" [fruit of fruits] are > reifications of particular historical enactments which have lost their > historical grounding and must be re-discovered. > > Anna or Martin > > Do you see both what the child is developing as it turns an enactment into a > number and the adult developing the word pomme as equivalent processes of > enactments becoming reified? > > Larry > __________________________________________ > _____ > xmca mailing list > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca __________________________________________ _____ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca