Thought Without Language

Introducing Books/ The Literary Mind: The Origin of Thought and Language, Sima Rahimi

Comparative Study of the Concept of Justice in Imam Khomeini and SayyidQutb’s Political Thought

Justice is one of the most important tendencies andinteractions in human existence that sustains the human society. In addition,one of the fundamental conce...

Variations in EFL Teachers’ Pedagogical Knowledge Base as a Function of Their Teaching License Status

The study of teachers’ pedagogical knowledge base (PKB) to discover how teachers think and work is attracting increasing attention in ELT. Against this background, the present study aimed at probing the likely variations in EFL teachers’ pedagogical knowledge base as a function of their teaching license status. To this aim, six teachers (two standard-licensed, two alternatively-licensed, and tw...

TACIT REFERENCE Some remarks on unarticulated parameters

John Perry introduced the idea of thought without representation. At first sight, this idea seems odd: we are surely used to consider that a thought about an object is a representation of that object. However, Perry's idea describes an important and pervasive phenomenon in language and thought. The study of this phenomenon highlights unexplored ways in which context contributes to the interpret...

The Role of L2 Private Speech in Cognitive Regulation of Adult Foreign Language Learners

The present study investigated the use of L2 private speech by English foreign language (EFL) learners in regulating their mental activities. Thirty intermediate adult EFL learners took a test of solving challenging English riddles while their voices were being recorded. Following, instances of the produced private speech were analyzed in terms of form, content, and function. Numerous instances...