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On making sense. An exploration of Wundt's apperceptionist account of meaningful speech.
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Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences . Autumn2018, Vol. 54 Issue 4, p272-292. 21p. 1 Diagram. - Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- In the wake of the critical reorientation in the historiography of psychology, a number of scholars challenged the one‐sided structuralist and positivist interpretation of Wilhelm Wundt's work. This paper aims at contributing to these recent efforts, by providing an analysis of the way in which Wundt's apperceptionism conditioned his account of the relation between thought and speech, and by extrapolation, of disorganized thought and speech. While Wundt's pivotal role in the development of the psychology of language is relatively well‐known, discussions on this part of his theorizing tend to focus exclusively on his gestural or motor account of language. This obliterates the complex theoretical background of Wundt's theory of language and speech, as well as its systematic place within his psychological system. Highlighting this neglected dimension of Wundt's theorizing, however, could open up a new horizon of pressing research questions in the historiography of psychology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00225061
- Volume :
- 54
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 132547374
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.21929