ABSTRACT

The view of abstract ideation as the telos of sociocultural intellectual development is revisited following Wertsch’s (1996) call to consider development within the spectrum of concrete and abstract ideation. This article provides a transdisciplinary framework adopting Vygotsky’s concept of semiotic mediation and the systemic functional linguistic concept of grammatical metaphor (GM). The focus is on novel qualitative and quantitative methods for investigating the accrual and dispersal of meanings through GM across genetic scales. The framework is illustrated with a case study of second-language university writing that presents developmentally-relevant patterns of oscillation along the concrete-abstract spectrum. Educational implications are briefly considered.

摘要

在Wertsch（1996）呼吁在具体和抽象构想范围内考虑发展问题之后，人们又重新将抽象构想视为社会文化智力发展的目标。本文提供了一个跨学科的框架，该框架采用了维果茨基的符号学调解概念和语法隐喻的系统功能语言概念。重点是新颖的定性和定量方法，以研究跨基因规模的基因改造通过意义的积累和传播。该框架以第二语言大学的案例研究为例进行了说明，该案例提出了与发展相关的沿具体抽象频谱的振荡模式。简要考虑教育意义。