Discourse, Tools and Reasoning

Discourse, Tools, and Reasoning.- 1 Constructing Meaning from Space, Gesture, and Speech.- 2 Centers of Coordination: A Case and Some Themes.- 3 Animated Texts: Selective Renditions of News Stories.- 4 To Resolve a Technical Problem Through Conversation.- 5 The Blackness of Black: Color Categories as Situated Practice.- 6 Reasonable Uncertainties: Parents' Talk About Caring for Children with Chronic Renal Failure.- 7 Syncretic Literacy in a Samoan American Family.- 8 Other Voices, Other Minds: The Use of Reported Speech in Group Therapy Talk.- 9 Situational Effects in Computer-Based Problem Solving.- 10 Discourse and Development: Notes from the Field.- 11 Interactional Perspectives on the Use of the Computer and on the Technological Development of a New Tool: The Case of Word Processing.- 12 What Organizes Our Problem-Solving Activities?.- 13 Understanding Symbols With Intermediate Abstractions: An Analysis of the Collaborative Construction of Mathematical Meaning.- 14 Strategy-Specific Information Access in Knowledge Acquisition from Hypertext.- 15 Talking About Reasoning: How Important Is the Peer in Peer Collaboration?.- 16 Seeing the Light: Discourse and Practice in the Optics Lab.- 17 Learning to Argue in Family-Shared Discourse: The Reconstruction of Past Events.- 18 Discourse in the Adult Classroom: Rhetoric as Technology for Dialogue.- Author Index.