The Language and Thought of the Child

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Health, Fitness & Dieting

Piget, Jean

Psychology & Counseling

Goldberg Press

This book contains a detailed treatise on the birds native to Britain, including some rural impressions of the English countryside and a number of exquisite illustrations. A wonderful text containing a wealth of information that will be of much use to both the amateur and seasoned bird watcher, 'Birds In Town & Village' makes for a great addition to any personal library and especially to collections of ornithological literature. The chapters of this book include: 'Birds in a Village', 'Exotic Birds for Britain', 'Moor-Hens in Hyde Park', 'The Eagle and the Canary', 'Chanticleer', 'In an Old Garden', 'Birds in a Cornish Village', 'Taking Stock of the Birds', 'Do Starlings Pair for Life', 'Village Birds in Winter', 'Increasing Birds in Britain', 'The Dawn Sentiment', and 'Story of a Jackdaw'. This text was originally published in 1920, and we are proud to republish it here complete with a new introduction on ornithology.

Birds in Town & Village

Science & Math

Hudson,W.H.

Biological Sciences

<p>The Language and Thought of the Child BY JEAN PIAGET. Originally published in 1926. Contents include: PREFACE ix FOREWORD . . . . . . . xix CHAPTER I THE FUNCTIONS OF LANGUAGE IN TWO CHILDREN OF SIX I I. The material ....... 5 I. An example of the talk taken down, 6 2. The functions of child language classified, 9 3. Repetition echolalia, ii 4. Monologue, 13 5. Collective monologue, 18 6. Adapted information, 19 7. Criticism and derision, 26 8. Commands, requests, threats, 27 9. Questions and answers, 28. II. Conclusions 34 10. The measure of ego-centrism, 34 n. Conclusion, 37 12. Results and hypotheses, 43. CHAPTER II TYPES AND STAGES IN THE CONVERSATION OF CHILDREN BETWEEN THE AGES OF FOUR AND SEVEN SO i. Check of the coefficient of ego-cenmsm, 51 2. Types of conversation between children, 52 3. Stage I Collective monologue, 56 4. Stage HA, First type Association with the action of others, 58 5. Stage UA, Second type Collaboration in action or in non vi CONTENTS abstract thought, 60 7. Stage I IB, First type Quarrelling, 65 8. Stage IIu, Second type Primi tive argument, 68 9, Stage IIlB Genuine argument, 7010, Conclusions, 73. CHAPTER III UNDERSTANDING AND VERBAL EXPLANATION IJEWEEN CHILDREN OF THE SAME AGE BETWEEN THE YEARS OF SIX AND EIGHT. 76 i. The method of experiment, 792. Parcelling out the material, 86 3. Numerical results, 944, Ego-centrism in the explanations given by one child to another, 99 5. The ideas of order and cause in the expositions given by the explainers, 1076. The factors of understanding, 119 7. Conclusion. The question of stages and the effort towards objectivity in the accounts given by children to one another, 124. CHAPTER IV SOME PECULIARITIES OF VERBAL UNDER STANDING IN THE CHILD BETWEEN THE AGES OF NINE AND ELEVEN 127 7. Verbal syncretism, 131 2, Syncretism of reasoning, 136 3. The need for justification at any price, 1454, Syncretism of understanding, 1505. Conclusion, 157. CHAPTER V THE QUESTIONS OF A CHILD OF SIX . . 1 62 I. f Whys 164 I. Principal types of whys, 166 2. Whys of causa explanation. Introduction and classification by material 171 3. Structure of the whys of explanation 1804. Whys of motivation 1885. a Whys of justification, 1 191 - 6, Conclusions, 197. LUJNIJiJNIb vn II. Questions not expressed under the form why . 199 7. Classification of Dels questions not expressed under the form, why, 199 8. Questions of causal explanation, 202 9. Questions of reality and history, 207 10. Ques tions about human actions and questions about rules, 214 ii. Questions of classification and calculation, 216. III. Conclusions 217 12. Statistical results, 217 13. The decline of precaus ality, 223 14. Conclusion. Categories of thought or logical functions in the child of seven, 227. APPENDIX 239 INDEX 245. PREFACE: THE importance of this remarkable work deserves to be doubly emphasized, for its novelty consists both in the results obtained and in the method by which they have been reached. How does the child think How does he speak What are the characteristics of his judgment and of his reasoning For half a century the answer has been sought to these questions which are those which we meet with at the very threshold of child psychology. If philosophers and biologists have bent their interest upon the soul of the child, it is because of the initial surprise they experienced at his logic and speech. In proof of this, we need only recall the words of Taine, of Darwin and of Egger, which are among the first recorded in the science of child logic. I cannot give a list here of all the works that have appeared since that period those of Preyer and of Sully, of P...</p>

Borthwick Castle - Or, Sketches Of Scottish History.

History

Borthwick, J. Douglas

Europe

Originally published in 1896. PREFACE: The series of papers collected in this volume may be considered as a complement or commentary to my "Essay on Classification" since I have endeavoured to present here in a more popular form the views first expressed in that work. And although the direct intention of these pages has been, as there title indicates, to give some general hints to young students as to the methods by which scientific truth has been reached, including a general sketch of the history of science in past times, yet I have also wished to avail myself of this opportunity to enter my earnest protest against the transmutation theory, revived of late with so much ability, and so generally received. It is my belief that naturalists are chasing a phantom, in there search after some material gradation among created beings, by which the whole Animal Kingdom may have been derived by successive development from a single germ, or from a few germs......Many of the earliest books, partic

Methods of Study in Natural History

Agassiz, L.

Nature & Ecology

The Story of the War in South Africa 1899-1900

MAHAN, Alfred Thayer

Africa

This volume contains D. H. Lawrence’s 1911 play, "The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd". Mrs. Holroyd’s husband is a slovenly miser who drinks a lot, associates with prostitutes, and beats her. After a local gentleman makes his amorous feelings for her known, Mrs. Holroyd's prayers are answered - and her husband is killed in a mining accident. This fantastic novel is highly recommended for fans of Lawrence’s work, and it is not to be missed by collectors. David Herbert Richards Lawrence (1885 - 1930) was an English novelist, poet, playwright, literary critic, and painter, famed as the author of "Lady Chatterley's Lover" and "Sons and Lovers". Many vintage texts such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now, in an affordable, high-quality, modern edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned biography of the author.

The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd

Literature & Fiction

LAWRENCE, D.H.

Dramas & Plays

Songs Of The Cattle Trail And Cow Camp

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Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp

Comics & Graphic Novels

Lomax, John A.

Graphic Novels

A Historical Grammar Of The French Tongue

Reference

Brachet, Auguste

Words, Language & Grammar

What Horse for the Cavalry?

What Horse For The Cavalry?

Borden, Spencer

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