Table of Contents

1. Background Information on Vygotskian Theory and Vygotsky and Man.- Days and Ages.- 2. Overview of L S. Vygotsky’s Psychological—Philosophical Theory.- Consciousness.- Lower Mental Processes and Higher Mental Processes.- Domains: Phylogeny, Ontogeny, Sociocultural History, Microgenesis.- 3. Tools—Psychological Tools—Internalization—Signs.- Tools.- Psychological and Technical Tools.- Internalization.- Signs.- History.- Thought—Word—Word Meanings—Language.- Word Meaning and Sense.- Inner Speech.- Concept Formation.- Scientific and Spontaneous Concepts.- Summary of Thought, Word Meaning, Language, and Concept Formation.- Dialectics.- Dialectics and Spinoza.- Problems Regarding Vygotsky’s Understanding of Dialectics.- Aesthetics.- Criticisms of Vygotsky and Responses.- Vygotsky’s Contributions.- 4. Chomskyan Linguistics and Vygotskian Semiotics.- American Linguistic Theory and Second Language Acquisition (SLA).- Rationalism (Chomskyan Perspective).- Innatism (Chomskyan Perspective).- Competence (Chomskyan Perspective).- Vygotskian Understanding of Rationalism, Innatism, Competence.- Rationalism (Vygotskian Perspective).- Innatism (Vygotskian Perspective).- Innatism and the Fodor Paradox.- Relativity (Representationalism and Perception).- Fodor—Vygotsky—Whorf (Continuation of Innatist Discussion).- Perception (Related to Innatism).- Competence (and Mental Representations—Vygotskian Perspective).- 5. Universal Grammar—SLA—Grammar from a Vygotskian Position.- Vygotskian Grammar (L1 and L2).- 6. Conclusion.- References.