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Sep 14, 2023 · In general, there are three views about the nature of the relationship: (1) inner speech episodes express thoughts; (2) inner speech episodes facilitate thoughts; and (3) inner speech episodes (at least sometimes) are thoughts of a certain kind.
Jan 31, 2024 · Also known as the internal monologue, inner speech is the voice we hear in our minds when thinking or reading. Surprisingly, empirical research has found that not everyone has this inner...
Jun 5, 2021 · Unlike other species, our human language capacity shapes our inner thought processes in ways that we can begin to study and understand. Inner speech differs from outer speech in being much...
- Inner Speech and Identity
- Is Inner Speech A Form of Speech Or Thought?
- Linguistic Characteristics of Inner Speech
- Inner Speech and Writing
"Dialogue launches language, the mind, but once it is launched we develop a new power, 'inner speech,' and it is this that is indispensable for our further development, our thinking. ... 'We are our language,' it is often said; but our real language, our real identity, lies in inner speech, in that ceaseless stream and generation of meaning that co...
"Difficult as it is to study inner speech, there have been attempts to describe it: it's said to be a shorthand version of real speech (as one researcher put it, a word in inner speech is 'the mere skin of a thought'), and it's very egocentric, not surprisingly, given that it's a monologue, with the speaker and the audience being the same person," ...
"Vygotsky identified a number of lexicogrammatical features which are foregrounded in both egocentric speech and inner speech. These features include omission of the subject, the foregrounding of predication, and a highly elliptical relationship between these forms and the speech situation (Vygotsky 1986 [1934]: 236)," (Paul Thibault, Agency and Co...
"Writing is part of the process of finding, developing, and articulating inner speech, that reservoir of internalized thought and language on which we depend for communication," (Gloria Gannaway, Transforming Mind: A Critical Cognitive Activity. Greenwood, 1994). "Because it is a more deliberate act, writing engenders a different awareness of langu...
- Richard Nordquist
Sep 26, 2023 · Thinking about how IS develops within an individual lifespan can provide a conceptual framework allowing researchers to account for various empirical findings. Many people report a form of internal language known as inner speech (IS).
Is inner speech—just as, arguably, language in general—predominately a means of making thoughts accessible (to whomever); is it merely a means to a communicative end? Or is inner speech a means (of thinking) in itself, perhaps even a means of enhancing our reasoning abilities? In what follows, I will argue for the latter.
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Jan 31, 2023 · Footnote 3 As Vygotsky put it: “in inner speech words die as they bring forth thought. Inner speech is to a large extent thinking in pure meanings. It is a dynamic, shifting unstable thing, fluttering between word and thought […]” (Vgyotsky 1986, p. 249).
