Publications

Publication details [#8705]

Scribner, Sylvia. 1979. Modes of thinking and ways of speaking: Culture and logic reconsidered. In Freedle, Roy O., ed. New directions in discourse processing. Ablex Publishing Company. pp. 223–243.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

communicative style | culture | intelligence | language and thought | logic

Annotation

A review of the principal findings of research on cultural influences on logical processes of intelligence, research uniting the psychological study of thinking processes with the ethnographic study of ways of speaking.

Reprints

Johnson-Laird, Philip N. and P.C. Wason. 1977. In Johnson-Laird, Philip N. and P.C. Wason, eds. Thinking: Readings in cognitive science. Cambridge University Press. pp. 223–243.