Some Issues in Russian Psycholingustics and theri Roots in the Linguistics and Psychology of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

Abstract

This article traces the development of the central issues of contemporary Russian psycholinguistics; the generation and perception of utterances and the relation between speech and thought from the works of the nineteenth century Slavist scholar; A. A. Potebnia and the linguist S. I. Bernstein and through the works of such eminent psychologists as Luria; Vygotsky; and Leontiev. The author shows how the development of these concepts are relevant to researchers and teachers today.