Thinking and speaking. What was at the beginning?
Critical analysis of methodological principles used by L.S. Vygotsky in a study of the relationship between thinking and language is given.The dialectics of meaning and word within cultural and historical activity is revealed, the nature of thinking and reasons that generate language are discussed. That allows deciphering both the content of the relationship between thought and word, and their own content. The same analysis shows to what extent L.S. Vygotsky was implementing his methodological principle of movement from work to word.