Skip to main content
Log in

Symbols and texts as tools of intellect

  • Published:
Interchange Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

References

  • Austin, J. L.How to do things with words. Edited by J. O. Urmson. New York: Oxford University Press, 1962.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bailey, B. L. Language and learning styles of minority group children in the United States. Paper read to the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, 1968.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bandura, A.Principles of behavior modification. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bereiter, C., & Engelman, S.Teaching disadvantaged children in the preschool. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall. 1966.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bruner, J. S.The process of education. New York: Macmillan, 1960.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bruner, J. S. On cognitive growth. In J. S. Bruner et al.,Studies in cognitive growth. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1966.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bruner, J. S. Nature and uses of immaturity.American Psychologist, 1972,27, 687–708.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bruner, J. S. From communication to language — A psychological perspective.Cognition, 1974/75,3, 225–287.

    Google Scholar 

  • Cole, M., Gay, J., Glick, J., & Sharp, D.The cultural context of learning and thinking. New York: Basic Books, 1971.

    Google Scholar 

  • de Laguna, G.Speech: Its function and development. College Park, Md.: McGrath Company, 1970. (Reprint of 1927 edition.)

    Google Scholar 

  • Dewey, J.Democracy and education. New York: Macmillan, 1916.

    Google Scholar 

  • Gellner, E. The savage and modern mind. In R. Horton & R. Finnegan (Eds.),Modes of thought. London: Faber and Faber, 1973.

    Google Scholar 

  • Goodman, N.Languages of art: An approach to a theory of symbols. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1968.

    Google Scholar 

  • Goody, J., & Watt, I. The consequences of literacy.Comparative Studies in Society and History, 1963,5, 304–345.

    Google Scholar 

  • Greenfield, P. Oral or written language: The consequences for cognitive development in Africa, the United States and England.Language and Speech, 1972, 169–178.

  • Grice, H. P.Logic and conversation. The William James Lectures, 1967 (mimeo).

  • Hamilton, K. G.The two harmonies: Poetry and prose in the 17th century. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963.

    Google Scholar 

  • Havelock, E.Preface to Plato. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1967.

    Google Scholar 

  • Havelock, E. Prologue to Greek literacy.Lectures in memory of Louise Taft Semple, second series, 1966–1971. Cincinnati: University of Oklahoma Press for the University of Cincinnati Press, 1973.

    Google Scholar 

  • Herbert, J. J., & Harsh, C. M. Observational learning by categorizing.Journal of Comparative Psychology, 1944,37, 81–95.

    Google Scholar 

  • Horton, R. African traditional thought and Western science. In B. R. Wilson (Ed.),Rationality. Oxford: Blackwell, 1970. Original printing (Africa) 1967.

    Google Scholar 

  • Huttenlocher, J. The origins of language comprehension. In R. Solso (Ed.),Theories in cognitive psychology: The Loyola Symposium. Potomac, Md.: Lawrence Erlbaum Association, 1974.

    Google Scholar 

  • Inhelder, B., & Piaget, J.The growth of logical thinking. New York: Basic Books, 1958.

    Google Scholar 

  • Labov, W. The logic of non-standard English. In F. Williams (Ed.),Language and poverty: Perspectives on a theme. Chicago: Markham Publishing Company, 1970.

    Google Scholar 

  • Levi-Strauss, C.The savage mind. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1966. (First French edition, 1962.)

    Google Scholar 

  • Living and learning. Report of the Provincial Committee on Aims and Objectives of Education in the Schools of Ontario. Toronto: Ontario Department of Education, 1968.

  • Lord, A.The singer of tales. New York: Atheneum, 1971.

    Google Scholar 

  • Luria, A. R. Towards the problem of the historical nature of psychological processes.International Journal of Psychology, 1971,6, 259–272.

    Google Scholar 

  • Macnamara, J. The cognitive basis of language learning in infants.Psychological Review, 1972,79, 1–13.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • McLuhan, M.Understanding media: The extension of man. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964.

    Google Scholar 

  • Olson, D. R. Towards a theory of instructional means.Educational Psychologist, 1976,12(1), 14–35.

    Google Scholar 

  • Olson, D. R. From utterance to text: The bias of language in speech and writing.Harvard Educational Review, 1977,47, 257–281.

    Google Scholar 

  • Olson, D. R., & Bruner, J. S. Learning through experience and learning through media. In D. R. Olson (Ed.),Media and symbols: The forms of expression, communication and education. 73rd Yearbook of the NSSE. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974.

    Google Scholar 

  • Ong, W.Rhetoric, romance and technology: Studies in the interaction of expression and culture. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1971.

    Google Scholar 

  • Piaget, J.John Amos Comenius: Selections. Paris: UNESCO, 1957.

    Google Scholar 

  • Piaget, J.Biology and knowledge. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971.

    Google Scholar 

  • Popper, K.Objective knowledge: An evolutionary approach. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972.

    Google Scholar 

  • Ricoeur, P. Metaphor and the main problem of hermeneutics. University of Toronto, 1971 (mimeo).

  • Scribner, S., & Cole, M. Cognitive consequences of formal and informal education.Science, 1973,182, 553–559.

    Google Scholar 

  • Searle, J. R.Speech acts: An essay in the philosophy of language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969.

    Google Scholar 

  • Stewart, W. Social dialect. InResearch Planning Conference on Language and Development in Disadvantaged Children. New York: Yeshiva University, 1966.

    Google Scholar 

  • Vygotsky, L. S.Thought and language. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1962.

    Google Scholar 

  • Wason, P. C., & Johnson-Laird, P. N.The psychology of reasoning. London: B. T. Batsford Limited, 1972.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

Authors

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Bruner, J.S., Olson, D.R. Symbols and texts as tools of intellect. Interchange 8, 1–15 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01810459

Download citation

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01810459

Navigation