Vygotsky,Hasan and Halliday: Towards Conceptual Complementarity |
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| Authors: | David Kellogg Ji-young Shin |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Human Sciences, Macquarie University;2. Second Language Studies/ESL, Department of English, Purdue University |
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| Abstract: | Vygotsky measured his ‘zone of proximal development’ in years. To do this, he needed a scheme of age periods, and a set of tasks that could diagnose the next age period without defining it. In this paper, we compare the age periods in his late lectures with Halliday’s categories of logico-semantic expansion as used by three adolescent writer/speakers. We find that the tendency to elaborate and embed clauses grows with expertise, while the tendency to tell stories wanes. We take this as evidence of the development of synoptic-dynamic complementarity in adolescents – and also in the theories of Halliday and Vygotsky. |
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| Keywords: | Vygotsky Halliday zone of proximal development adolescent logico-semantic relations |
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