Bonnie Litowitz
Biographic Data
| ID | 5212259 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bonnie Litowitz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bonnie |
| FAMILY NAME | Litowitz |
| SIGNATURE | LITOWITZ B |
| AFFILIATIONS | 122 S. Michigan Avenue #1307, Chicago, IL 60603, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
From switch‐words to stitch‐words
During the course of treatment with some patients a word or phrase reappears that functions to connect layers of fantasies and to identify a history of conflicts and defenses. These stitch-words are compared to the switch-words proposed by Freud as points of condensation in dreams, as well as to other forms of idiolectic evidence (e.g. metaphors) that inform therapeutic listening. Stitch-words expand on Freud's concept by taking into account synt…
Bonnie Litowitz
Learning to make definitions
The ability to define words by means of other words, which forms a part of many standardized tests, must be learned by a child. The nature of the ‘definitional task’ and the development of language responses (from children 4; 5 to 7; 5) are discussed in terms of a linguistic analysis of the definitional form and its semantic relations. Progress in definitional strategies by children moves along two continua: conceptually from the individually exp…
Individual and shared meanings
From switch‐words to stitch‐words
During the course of treatment with some patients a word or phrase reappears that functions to connect layers of fantasies and to identify a history of conflicts and defenses. These stitch-words are compared to the switch-words proposed by Freud as points of condensation in dreams, as well as to other forms of idiolectic evidence (e.g. metaphors) that inform therapeutic listening. Stitch-words expand on Freud's concept by taking into account synt…
Learning to make definitions
The ability to define words by means of other words, which forms a part of many standardized tests, must be learned by a child. The nature of the ‘definitional task’ and the development of language responses (from children 4; 5 to 7; 5) are discussed in terms of a linguistic analysis of the definitional form and its semantic relations. Progress in definitional strategies by children moves along two continua: conceptually from the individually exp…
Individual and shared meanings
Bonnie Litowitz
From switch‐words to stitch‐words
During the course of treatment with some patients a word or phrase reappears that functions to connect layers of fantasies and to identify a history of conflicts and defenses. These stitch-words are compared to the switch-words proposed by Freud as points of condensation in dreams, as well as to other forms of idiolectic evidence (e.g. metaphors) that inform therapeutic listening. Stitch-words expand on Freud's concept by taking into account synt…
Psychology (4 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (2 works) · Cognitive psychology (1 works) · Cognitive science (1 works) · Communication (1 works) · Communication (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works) · Creativity in Education and Neuroscience (1 works)