Thought before language.

Introducing Books/ The Literary Mind: The Origin of Thought and Language, Sima Rahimi

Comparative Study of the Concept of Justice in Imam Khomeini and SayyidQutb’s Political Thought

Justice is one of the most important tendencies andinteractions in human existence that sustains the human society. In addition,one of the fundamental conce...

Language , Thought , and the Language of Thought ( Aunty ’ s Own Argument Revisited

1. Introduction In this chapter, I shall be examining an argument for the language of thought hypothesis – an argument which, in earlier work (Davies, 1992; see also 1991), I have called 'Aunty's own argument for the language of thought'. That will be the business of Sections 2-5. In the final section, I shall briefly mention some points of contact between this argument for the language of thou...

Variations in EFL Teachers’ Pedagogical Knowledge Base as a Function of Their Teaching License Status

The study of teachers’ pedagogical knowledge base (PKB) to discover how teachers think and work is attracting increasing attention in ELT. Against this background, the present study aimed at probing the likely variations in EFL teachers’ pedagogical knowledge base as a function of their teaching license status. To this aim, six teachers (two standard-licensed, two alternatively-licensed, and tw...

The Role of L2 Private Speech in Cognitive Regulation of Adult Foreign Language Learners

The present study investigated the use of L2 private speech by English foreign language (EFL) learners in regulating their mental activities. Thirty intermediate adult EFL learners took a test of solving challenging English riddles while their voices were being recorded. Following, instances of the produced private speech were analyzed in terms of form, content, and function. Numerous instances...

The Power of Words in Message Planning

Before engaging in a conversation , a message must be planned. While there are many ways to perform this task, I believe that people do this in the following way, in particular if the message is going to be long: first an outline is planned (global, or skeleton planning), which is then filled in with details (local planning, elaboration). Planning proceeds thus from general to specific (breadth...