Private speech, executive functioning, and the development of verbal self-regulation / edited by Adam Winsler, Charles Fernyhough, Ignacio Montero.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Laura Berk -- Introduction -- Still talking to ourselves after all these years: a review of current research on private speech / Adam Winsler -- Dialogic thinking / Charles Fernyhough -- The executive functions of language in preschool children / Ulrich Müller, Sophie Jacques, Karin Brocki, and Philip David Zelazo -- The neuropsychology of covert and overt speech: Implications for the study of private speech in children and adults / Simon R. Jones -- Talking and thinking: the role of speech in social understanding / Jeremy Carpendale, Charlie Lewis, Noah Susswein, and Joanna Lunn -- Private speech and theory of mind: evidence for developing interfunctional relations / Charles Fernyhough and Elizabeth Meins -- Development of communicative competence through private and inner speech / Peter Feigenbaum -- Private speech in the framework of referential communication / Conchi San Martín Martínez, Humbert Boada i Calbet, and Maria Forns i Santacana -- Preschool children's speech awareness and theory of speech / Louis Manfra -- Young children's knowledge about overt and covert private speech / John H. Flavell and Adrian A. Wong -- Private pointing and private speech: developing parallelisms / Begoña Delgado, Juan Carlos Gómez, and Encarnación Sarriá -- Symbols as tools in the development of executive function / Stephanie M. Carlson and Danielle M. Beck -- On the persistence of private speech: empirical and theoretical considerations / Robert Duncan and Donato Tarulli -- Private speech beyond childhood: testing the developmental hypothesis / José A. Sánchez-Medina, David Alarcón Rubio, and Manuel L. De la Mata Benítez -- Private speech and motivation: the role of language in a sociocultural account of motivational processes / David J. Atencio and Ignacio Montero -- Creativity and private speech in young children / C. Stephen White and Martha Daugherty -- Early childhood teachers' awareness, beliefs, and practices toward children's private speech / Carla Baker Deniz -- Afterword / James Wertsch.

Seventy-five years after Vygotsky's death, scholarship exploring developmental relations between language and thought continues to be strong. This edited volume compiles contributions from international leaders in the field on the roles of language and private speech (self-talk) in the development of self-regulation and executive functioning in children and adults. New theoretical insights, empirical research, and potential clinical and educational applications of scholarship on private speech are presented. Relevant for undergraduate and graduate students and scholars of psychology, education, linguistics, and cognitive science, this text will be an essential volume for those interested in the interface between language, cognition, and behaviour, and the development of regulatory or cognitive control over behaviour.

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