Words and Minds
How We Use Language to Think Together
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23399700 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Neil Mercer (0000-0002-6829-8072, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Pages | 224 |
| Publication date | 2002-05-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Reviewed by | Words and Minds: How We Use Language to Think Together, Rob Waring, 2002 |
| Venue | Words and Minds (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.4324/9780203464984 |
| OpenAlex | W1487272748 |
| Open Library | OL53880722M |
| ISBN | 9780203464984 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 339 |
Words and Minds takes a lively and accessible look at how we use language to combine our mental resources and get things done. Examining everyday language and drawing on a wide range of research, but always with a light style, Neil Mercer provides a unified account of the relationship between thought and language.Mercer analyses real-life examples of language being used effectively, or otherwise, in many different settings, including workplaces and schools, the home, the internet and the courtroom, and offers practical insights into how we might improve our communication skills.Words and Minds will appeal to anyone interested in language and the psychology of everyday life.
Linguistics · Communication in Education and Healthcare · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function · Philosophy · Psychology · Communication · Language and languages · Thought and thinking
Visual Representation Construction for Collective Reasoning in Elementary Science Classrooms
Writing as a mediational tool for learning in the collaborative composition of texts
Contributions and silence in academic talk
Dialogic interactions, co-regulation and the appropriation of text composition abilities in primary school children
Capturing deliberative argument
‘Because I point to myself as the hog’
Teaching how to learn with a wiki in primary education
Group interaction of primary-aged students in the context of a learner-generated digital video production
Explaining the dialogic processes of teaching and learning
Developing a coding scheme for analysing classroom dialogue across educational contexts
Scaffolding primary teachers in designing and enacting language-oriented science lessons
Combining the dialogic and the dialectic
‘Stretch your answers’
Both dialogic and dialectic
The social organisation of talk-in-interaction at work in a language teacher professional community
Dialogic literacy
How does dialogical talk promote student learning during small group work? An exploratory study
‘Dialogic scaffolding’
Examining dialogic opportunities in teacher-student interaction
Teacher as an orchestrator of collaborative planning in learner-generated video production
Language use and participation in discourse in the mathematics classroom
Troubles with dialogic teaching
Learning in retirement
The Three Domains for Dialogue
A construct of cognitive discourse functions for conceptualising content-language integration in CLIL and multilingual education
Critical Community Pratice
SCT and Translanguaging-to-learn
‘Good Packaging Can be Misleading’
‘Does everybody understand?’ Teacher questions across disciplines in English-mediated university lectures
Speaking of One’s Life
The cognitive-conceptual, planning-organizational, affective-social and linguistic-discursive affordances of translanguaging
The Process of Subject Content Transformation as Examined Through Psychological and Sociological Perspectives
Learning analytics
Developing Teacher Capacity for Serving ELLs' Writing Instructional Needs
Numerical Abstraction in Prehistory. A View from Cognitive Archeology = Abstracción numérica en la Prehistoria. Una visión desde la arqueología cognitiva
Dialogicality in making sense of online collaborative interaction
The Space Between Shared Understandings of the Teaching of Grammar in English and French to Year 7 Learners
Long-Lasting Conceptual Change in Science Education
The interconnections among metadiscourse, metalanguage, and metacognition
Technology-aided meaning-making across participation structures
Relational agency
Dialogue, thinking together and digital technology in the classroom
What the discourse tells us
A multilevel SEM study of classroom talk on cooperative learning and academic achievement
Implementation and efficacy of a teacher intervention in dialogic mathematics classroom discourse in Hong Kong primary schools
Working with learners’ mathematical thinking
Educational design as conversation
Classroom talk, conceptual change and teacher reflection in bilingual science teaching
Teacher learning in the context of Lesson Study
Using talk to scaffold referential questions for English language learners
Facilitating academic text-based discussions in initial teacher education
Collaboration and learning with drawing as a tool
The quality of teacher feedback matters
Anatomy of a teacher–student feedback encounter
Institutional conceptualisations of teacher education as academic work in England
Connecting the dots
Academic achievement, pupil participation and integration of group work skills in secondary school classrooms in Trinidad and Barbados
Learner-centred education and ‘cultural translation’
Pedagogical renewal
Análisis de las Interacciones entre Alumnado y Diversas Personas Adultas en Actuaciones Educativas de Exito
Self- and other-repairs in child-adult interaction at the intersection of pragmatic abilities and language acquisition
Collaborating with ‘familiar’ strangers in mobile-assisted environments
Transforming student contributions into subject-specific expression
Video conferencing and multimodal expression of voice
Constructing complex Cognitive Discourse Functions in higher education
Análisis del discurso con desempleados de larga duración durante entrevistas de inserción laboral
The Mediation of Learning in the Zone of Proximal Development through a Co-constructed Writing Activity
Beyond Exposure
Explorations of classroom talk and links to reading achievement in upper elementary classrooms
Rethinking the Role of Peer Collaboration in Enhancing Cognitive Growth
Global Storylines as a Way of Tackling Diversity in Classrooms and Around the World
‘You’re Deeping It’
Practices of Other-Initiated Repair in the Classrooms of Children with Specific Speech and Language Difficulties
Exploratory Interactive Explaining (Exintex)
Classroom communities' adaptations of the practice of scientific argumentation
The Seeds of Time
Clarifying Integrative Research Concepts in Landscape Ecology
Formative Assessment
Associations between shyness, reluctance to engage, and academic performance
Towards a Dynamic Conceptual Framework for English-Medium Education in Multilingual University Settings
Effects of Persuasion and Discussion Goals On Writing, Cognitive Load, and Learning in Science
Teacher Scaffolding Strategies to Transform Whole-classroom Talk into Collective Inquiry in Elementary Science Classrooms
The Discourse and Reflections of Teacher Candidates During an Early Field Experience
Conversations
Understanding teachers’ professional dialogue in an inquiry community
Developing translation problem-solving behaviours through exploratory talk-driven collaborative learning
Beyond Defensive Fixations
Dialogic inquiry interviews
The impact of politeness on challenges in students’ online debates
Rethinking Philosophy Education in Aotearoa’s New Curriculum Through Plato’s Academy
Meaningfully Designing and Implementing SCOBAs in Socioculturally-based L2 Teacher Education Programs
Plain English
Beyond dissonance
Years’ Development of Research on Sociocultural Theory
Understanding the talk patterns in secondary school classrooms
Mapping dialogic space in exploratory, disputational, and cumulative talk
Conceptualising a science toolkit for systematic educational dialogue analysis (SciT-Seda)
Language learners’ linguistic investment in ideologically framed language institutes
An EAP instructor's perceptions of and engagement in dialogic scaffolding
Co-constructing and negotiating knowledge propositions in social studies discussion
| Unique citing works | 279 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 6,05 |
| Citation span | 1970 - 2026 (57) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 266 |