Independent Study

Independent Study psychology in social and cultural context, with an emphasis on linguistic processes. It would include a balance of theory, empirical results, and methodology.

Epistemology Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations  language games and use theory of language Vygotsky, Thought and Language

Merleau-Ponty The Visible and the Invisible

Social Foundations of Language and Thought (Ask Roy for selections?)

Performative language Wortham

Bakhtin

Austin, How to do things with words (and subsequent)  The Theory of Communicative Action

Self and world Holland et al, Figured Worlds

Social 

Still coming…

Piaget, (ask Roy)

What about Bruno Latour?

V2 The linguistic foundations of social cognition: Curriculum for an independent study

Austin, J. L. (1975). How to do things with words. Oxford university press.

Habermas, J. (1985). Trans. McCarthy, T. The theory of communicative action. Beacon press.

Gee, J. (2015). Social linguistics and literacies: Ideology in discourses. Routledge.

Goffman, E. (1978). The presentation of self in everyday life (p. 56). Harmondsworth.

Holland, D., Lachicotte, W., Skinner, D., & Cain, C. (2001). Identity and agency in cultural worlds. Harvard University Press.

Latour, B. (2005). Reassembling the social: An introduction to actor-network-theory. Oxford university press.

Merleau-Ponty, M., & Lefort, C. (1968). The visible and the invisible: followed by working notes. Northwestern University Press.

Olson, D.R. (1980). (Ed.) The social foundations of language and thought: Essays in Honor of Jerome S. Bruner. New York: WW Norton. (Introduction, pp. 1-9, 14-15)

Wittgenstein, L. (2010). Philosophical investigations. John Wiley & Sons.

Wortham, S. E. F. (2001). Narratives in action: A strategy for research and analysis. Teachers College Press.

Vygotskiĭ, L. S., Hanfmann, E., & Vakar, G. (2012). Thought and language. MIT press.