How Do Emotions Signify? Social Relations and Psychological Functions in the Dramatic Constitution of Subjects
| Autor: | Lavínia Lopes Salomão Magiolino, Ana Luiza Bustamante Smolka |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Cultural Studies
Social Psychology Cognitive Neuroscience media_common.quotation_subject Sign (semiotics) Self-control Language and Linguistics Social relation Education Epistemology Anthropology Mediation Developmental and Educational Psychology Semiotics Meaning (existential) Consciousness Psychology Relation (history of concept) media_common |
| Zdroj: | Mind, Culture, and Activity. 20:96-112 |
| ISSN: | 1532-7884 1074-9039 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/10749039.2012.743155 |
| Popis: | In this article, we discuss contributions from contemporary authors toward understanding a complex topic: human emotions. We comment on these authors' ideas and describe their ways of talking about emotions in relation to language, consciousness, meaning, and psychological instruments. After considering the distinct contributions of these authors, we inquire how Vygotsky's ideas deepen our understanding of human emotions and we argue the need for further exploration into the interrelations between emotions and signification. In his search to explain how social relations become internalized psychological functions, Vygotsky utilized the notions of sign and semiotic mediation to highlight the role of verbal language and meaning in making specific forms of communication and generalization possible, such as planning and self-regulation. Vygotsky claimed that human emotions develop, but he did not explicitly state how this happens. Assuming that emotions are also affected by sign production and (trans)formed b... |
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