ABSTRACT
Littleton and Mercer (2013: 1) explain how spoken language enables people to ‘think creatively and productively together’. They call this interthinking and discuss how this process reflects an important evolutionary stage, when humans began to recognise the power of collective solutions, rather than seeking individual courses of action. Interthinking occurs when people interact with each other. It requires people to utilise language in dynamic ways, both to express their understandings and also to reach new and original understandings, as a result of their interthinking.
