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Discourse, Tools and Reasoning

Essays on Situated Cognition

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  • © 1997

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Editors:
  1. Lauren B. Resnick

    1. Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA

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  2. Roger Säljö

    1. Department of Communication Studies, Linköping University, Sweden

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  3. Clotilde Pontecorvo

    1. Dipartimento di Psicologia dei Processi di Sviluppo e Socializzazione, Universitá degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”, Italy

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  4. Barbara Burge

    1. Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA

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Part of the book series: NATO ASI Subseries F: (NATO ASI F, volume 160)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
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  2. Discourse, Tools, and Reasoning: Essays on Situated Cognition

    1. Discourse, Tools, and Reasoning: Essays on Situated Cognition

      • Lauren B. Resnick, Clotilde Pontecorvo, Roger Säljö
      Pages 1-20

  3. Distributed Cognition: Discourse and Activity in Complex Work Environments

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
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    2. Constructing Meaning from Space, Gesture, and Speech

      • Edwin Hutchins, Leysia Palen
      Pages 23-40

    3. Centers of Coordination: A Case and Some Themes

      • Lucy Suchman
      Pages 41-62

    4. Animated Texts: Selective Renditions of News Stories

      • Christian Heath, Gillian Nicholls
      Pages 63-86

    5. To Resolve a Technical Problem Through Conversation

      • Alain Trognon, Corinne Grusenmeyer
      Pages 87-110

    6. The Blackness of Black: Color Categories as Situated Practice

      • Charles Goodwin
      Pages 111-140

  4. Negotiating Identities: The Construction of Sociocognitive Communities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141
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    2. Reasonable Uncertainties: Parents’ Talk About Caring for Children with Chronic Renal Failure

      • David Middleton
      Pages 143-168

    3. Syncretic Literacy in a Samoan American Family

      • Alessandro Duranti, Elinor Ochs
      Pages 169-202

    4. Other Voices, Other Minds: The Use of Reported Speech in Group Therapy Talk

      • Alessandra Fasulo
      Pages 203-223

    5. Situational Effects in Computer-Based Problem Solving

      • Paul Light, Karen Littleton
      Pages 224-239

  6. Accountable Talk: Learning to Reason

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 359-359
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Not long ago, projections of how office technologies would revolutionize the production of documents in a high-tech future carriedmany promises. The paper­ less office and the seamless and problem-free sharing of texts and other work materials among co-workers werejust around the corner, we were told. To anyone who has been involved in putting together a volume of the present kind, such forecasts will be met with considerable skepticism, if not outright distrust. The diskette, the email, the fax, the net, and all the other forms of communication that are now around are powerful assets, but they do not in any way reduce the flow of paper or the complexity of coordinating activities involved in producing an artifact such as a book. Instead, the reverse seems to be true. Obviously, the use of such tools requires considerable skill at the center of coordination, to borrow an expression from a chapter in this volume. As editors, we have been fortunate to have Ms. Lotta Strand, Linkoping University, at the center of the distributed activity that producing this volume has required over the last few years. With her considerable skill and patience, Ms. Strand and her work provide a powerful illustration of the main thrust of most of the chapters in this volume: Practice is a coordination of thinking and action, and many things had to be kept in mind during the production of this volume.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA

    Lauren B. Resnick, Barbara Burge

  • Department of Communication Studies, Linköping University, Sweden

    Roger Säljö

  • Dipartimento di Psicologia dei Processi di Sviluppo e Socializzazione, Universitá degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”, Italy

    Clotilde Pontecorvo

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