Language & Thought of the Child
Piaget, Jean
Language & Thought of the Child - 3rd - New York Routledge 1959 - 294p
Contents: -
Preface by E. Claparede
Foreword to the First Edition
Foreword to the Third Edition
1. The Functions of Language in Two Children of Six
1. The Material
2. The Functions of Child Language Classified
3. Repetition (Echolalia)
4. Monologue
5. Collective Monologue
6. Adapted Information
7. Criticism and Derision
8. Commands, Requests, Threats
9. Questions and Answers
II. Conclusions
10. The Measure of Ego-centrism
11. Conclusion
12. Results and hypotheses
2. Types and Stages in the Conversation of Children between the Ages of Four and Seven
1. Check of the Coefficient of Ego-Centrism
2. Types of Conversation between Children
3. Stage I: Collective Monologue
4. Stage IIA, First type: Association with the Action of others
5. Stage IIA, Second type: Collaboration in Action of in Non-abstract Thought
7. Stage IIB, First type: Quarrelling
8. Stage IIB, Second type: Primitive Argument
9. Stage IIb: Genuine Argument
10. Conclusion
3. Understanding and verbal Explanation between Children of the Same Age between the Years of Six and Eight
1.The Method of Experiment
2. Parcelling out the material
3. Numerical result
4. Ego-centrism in the explanations given by one child to another
5. The ideas of order and cause in the expositions given by the explainers
6. The factors of understanding
7. Conclusion The question of stages and the effort towards objectivity in the accounts given by children to one another
4. Some Peculiarities of Verbal Understanding in the between the Ages on Nine and Eleven
1. Verbal syncretism
2. Syncretism of reasoning
3. The Need for Justification at any Price
4. Syncretism of Understanding
5. Conclusion
5. The questions of a child of Six
I) "Whys"
1. Principal types of "Whys"
2. "Whys of causal explanation." Introduction and classification by material
3. Structure of the "Whys of explanation"
4. "Whys of motivation"
5. "Whys of Justification"
6. Conclusions
II) Questions not expressed under the form of "Why"
7. Classification of Del's questions not expressed under the form "Why"
8. Questions of causal explanation
9. Questions of reality and history
10. Questions about human actions and questions about rules
11. Questions of classification and calculation
II) Conclusions
12. Statistical results
13. The decline of precausality
14. Conclusion. Categories of thought or logical functions in the child of seven
6. The measure of Ego-centric language in verbal communication between the adult and the child and in verbal exchanges between children
1. Hans' remarks during the course of his fourth year
2. The reactions of three other children
3. The ego-centrism of childish seech
4. The child's intellectual ego-centrism
Aendix
Index
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Language & Thought of the Child - 3rd - New York Routledge 1959 - 294p
Contents: -
Preface by E. Claparede
Foreword to the First Edition
Foreword to the Third Edition
1. The Functions of Language in Two Children of Six
1. The Material
2. The Functions of Child Language Classified
3. Repetition (Echolalia)
4. Monologue
5. Collective Monologue
6. Adapted Information
7. Criticism and Derision
8. Commands, Requests, Threats
9. Questions and Answers
II. Conclusions
10. The Measure of Ego-centrism
11. Conclusion
12. Results and hypotheses
2. Types and Stages in the Conversation of Children between the Ages of Four and Seven
1. Check of the Coefficient of Ego-Centrism
2. Types of Conversation between Children
3. Stage I: Collective Monologue
4. Stage IIA, First type: Association with the Action of others
5. Stage IIA, Second type: Collaboration in Action of in Non-abstract Thought
7. Stage IIB, First type: Quarrelling
8. Stage IIB, Second type: Primitive Argument
9. Stage IIb: Genuine Argument
10. Conclusion
3. Understanding and verbal Explanation between Children of the Same Age between the Years of Six and Eight
1.The Method of Experiment
2. Parcelling out the material
3. Numerical result
4. Ego-centrism in the explanations given by one child to another
5. The ideas of order and cause in the expositions given by the explainers
6. The factors of understanding
7. Conclusion The question of stages and the effort towards objectivity in the accounts given by children to one another
4. Some Peculiarities of Verbal Understanding in the between the Ages on Nine and Eleven
1. Verbal syncretism
2. Syncretism of reasoning
3. The Need for Justification at any Price
4. Syncretism of Understanding
5. Conclusion
5. The questions of a child of Six
I) "Whys"
1. Principal types of "Whys"
2. "Whys of causal explanation." Introduction and classification by material
3. Structure of the "Whys of explanation"
4. "Whys of motivation"
5. "Whys of Justification"
6. Conclusions
II) Questions not expressed under the form of "Why"
7. Classification of Del's questions not expressed under the form "Why"
8. Questions of causal explanation
9. Questions of reality and history
10. Questions about human actions and questions about rules
11. Questions of classification and calculation
II) Conclusions
12. Statistical results
13. The decline of precausality
14. Conclusion. Categories of thought or logical functions in the child of seven
6. The measure of Ego-centric language in verbal communication between the adult and the child and in verbal exchanges between children
1. Hans' remarks during the course of his fourth year
2. The reactions of three other children
3. The ego-centrism of childish seech
4. The child's intellectual ego-centrism
Aendix
Index
9780415267502