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On Meaning and Mental Representation

A Pragmatic Approach

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  • © 2013

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Authors:
  1. Wolff-Michael Roth

    1. University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada

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  • Written by experts, Gives a modern approach, Comprehensive in Scope

Part of the book series: New Directions in Mathematics and Science Education (NDMS, volume 1)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Frontispiece

    • Wolff-Michael Roth
    Pages 1-1

  3. Language «meaning», «mental representation», and «conceptions» in STEM research

    • Wolff-Michael Roth
    Pages 3-20

  4. «Meaning» in science education

    • Wolff-Michael Roth
    Pages 21-38

  5. Hunting the elusive tiger

    • Wolff-Michael Roth
    Pages 39-68

  6. «Meaning» and the subject

    • Wolff-Michael Roth
    Pages 69-98

  7. Culturing «conception»

    • Wolff-Michael Roth
    Pages 99-141

  8. The language of real life and the real life of language

    • Wolff-Michael Roth
    Pages 143-167

  9. The documentary method

    • Wolff-Michael Roth
    Pages 169-186

  10. The documentary method and «mental representation»

    • Wolff-Michael Roth
    Pages 187-201

  11. Epilogue

    • Wolff-Michael Roth
    Pages 203-207

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 209-223
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About this book

This book is about language in STEM research and about how it is thought about: as something that somehow refers to something else not directly accessible, often «meaning», «mental representation», or «conception». Using the analyses of real data and analyses of the way certain concepts are used in the scientifi c literature, such as “meaning,” this book reframes the discussion about «meaning», «mental representation», and «conceptions» consistent with the pragmatic approaches that we have become familiar with through the works of K. Marx, L. S. Vygotsky, M. M. Bakhtin, V. N. Vološinov, L. Wittgenstein, F. Mikhailov, R. Rorty, and J. Derrida, to name but a few. All of these scholars, in one or another way, articulate a critique of a view of language that has been developed in a metaphysical approach from Plato through Kant and modern constructivism; this view of language, which already for Wittgenstein was an outmoded view in the middle of the last century, continuous to be alive today and dominating the way language is thought about and theorized.

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  • University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada

    Wolff-Michael Roth

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