Talking and Thinking: The Patterns of Behavior

by David Butt

This book, written in the form of a conversation between a student of educational theory and a student of linguistics, brings out the relationship between talking and thinking. Their discussion can be divided into three parts: the Saussurean theory of signs seen within different approaches to meaning; the implications of sign theory in accordance with what thinking implies in specific communities; and the way in which point of view can alter meaning...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0194371514
• ISBN13: 9780194371513
• Release Date: May 1989
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.7" x 9.7"