Q1: Take Taeyoung and his mother. Is it a case of too much generalization or too little?
It is the case of too little generation. The child uses "엄마“ when he attract his mother's attention and he uses "여보” as the word "엄마“ fails. When he says "여보", he is using another name. If "여보” would not work, he might use the word "에미야“ that is used by his grandmother when she calls his mother. The child knows that his mother has several names but he does not understand each name should be used in a special social context. Therefore we could say that the miss-use of the word "여보" would lead him to new thoughts: '여보' is a very special word. It is father's word. and "에미야" is grandmother's. Now he might be able to develop a rule that all of the people's names are decided on the social contexts and the names are the reflections of the relationships.
I think that this is what you mean when you say that "social contact gives rise to psychological generalization". The learning occurs in the social contact and the generalization happens in the child mind.
Q2: What is a good unit of analysis for looking at classroom discourse if we are interested in how the emotional coloration of an exchange is communicated? Is it:
a) A phoneme? b) A word c) An Utterance? d) An exchange?
e) A sequence? f) An episode? g) A lesson?
I think the unit should be around a word and an utterance. What distinguishes the meaning between the two words cap and cab is not the difference of the sound that p and b make, but is the difference of the intonation and the length of the sound of 'a'. It means that we need intonation and length of sounds that can be showed in a word or an utterance to study emotion. I think phoneme is too short and an exchange and the others are too big.
첫댓글 Did you notice that in Chapter Two (para 2-1-47 and 2-1-48) Freud, Piaget, and Hans Larsson say that "condensation" is a kind of generalization, and "transference" is a kind of abstraction? I don't believe in either condensation or transference, but I think if I did believe in them, I would say it is the other way around. I think Vygotsky would say that, anyway.