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  • 11 - A review of inner speech in cultural-historical tradition

  • from Part IV - Language and culture
  • Edited by Anton Yasnitsky, University of Toronto, René van der Veer, Universiteit Leiden, Michel Ferrari, University of Toronto
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Cultural-Historical Psychology
    Published online:
    05 October 2014
    Print publication:
    30 September 2014, pp 272-294

  • Summary

    Research on inner speech ranks among the central topics of psycholinguistics. Even Humboldt expressed an interest in the inner form of language. The aspect of the social nature and the mediatedness of mental functions by signs are essential to the cultural-historical view of psycholinguistics. This chapter is devoted to the description of the phenomenon of inner speech in the Vygotskian tradition. In the literature of Soviet psychology, inner speech is extensively covered. Vygotsky laid the foundation of the research on inner speech, which was taken up by the authors mentioned and modified according to their centers of attention. Concerning the genesis of inner speech, Vygotsky assumes that every higher mental function is originally distributed between two people. The chapter concludes, by quoting Vygotsky, "speech is not only a means to understand others, but also a means to understand oneself".