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  • Chapter 4 - Thinking in Sociocultural Psychology

  • Tania Zittoun, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland
  • Book:
    The Pleasure of Thinking
    Published online:
    05 October 2023
    Print publication:
    19 October 2023, pp 127-146

  • Summary

    In order to theorise the pleasure of thinking, this book builds on sociocultural psychology. Chapter 4 first goes back to Lev Vygotsky’s propositions on thinking, which open possible ways to address affects in thinking. In the second part, it explores the work of three contemporary theoreticians, all building a semiotic cultural psychology: Jaan Valsiner, who has developed the Vygotskian heritage into a new and creative semiotic cultural psychology, notably drawing on Charles Peirce and open dynamic system theory; Sergio Salvatore, whose semio-dynamic approach also draws on psychoanalysis; and Yair Neuman, who pursues this dialogue with biology and the sciences in his computational cultural psychology. These innovative, albeit demanding, approaches will give us the elements to build a more integrative theoretical framework in the next chapter.

  • Navigating a multimodal ensemble: Learners mediating verbal and non-verbal turns in online interaction tasks

  • Janine Knight, Melinda Dooly, Elena Barberà
  • Journal:
    ReCALL / Volume 32 / Issue 1 / January 2020
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 October 2019, pp. 25-46

  • Research into the multimodal aspects of language is increasingly important as communication through a screen plays a greater role in modern society than ever before (Liou, 2011). Multimodality has been explored from a number of angles relating to computer-mediated communication (CMC), such as its affordances and impact on language learners, highlighting its relevance and importance in the field of second language acquisition (SLA). Because CMC scenarios require attending to both peers and the screen, learners can be seen as positioned as “semiotic initiators and responders” (Coffin & Donohue, 2014). Increasingly, researchers are highlighting a need for a methodological “turn” to analyse this scenario from a “language” focus to a more holistic understanding of the interactions (Flewitt, 2008; Hampel & Hauck, 2006; Kress & van Leeuwen, 2001; Lamy, 2006). Along these lines, this case study explores how the action of task completion is mediated between six dyads (and individuals within the dyads) during an online peer-to-peer audioconferencing event. Drawing on notions from multimodal (inter)actional analysis (Norris, 2004, 2006) and the notion of “semiotic initiators and responders”, it investigates semiotic mediation with screen-based resources through analysis of audio recordings, screenshots, log files, task simulation and reconstruction. Results highlight oral and screen-based initiations and responses that take place during task completion, which is presented as a framework.