Communication in Development
- 1st Edition - January 28, 1981
- Editor: W. P. Robinson
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 4 5 4 7 - 8
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 5 9 0 1 4 0 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 6 6 8 6 - 2
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Request a sales quoteCommunication in Development is composed of papers derived from two sources. An International Conference on Social Psychology and Language was held in Bristol in July 1979. Considerations of space rather than merit prevented some of the papers, given in supplementary sessions on language development, from being published in the proceedings. These papers are published in this volume. Also included are recent and hitherto unpublished papers from European researchers working in the field of language and cognitive development. The contents of this volume range from the early non-verbal communication to the emergence of the child's understanding about referential communication, and to between and within socio-economic status differences in maternal and child behavior. The kinds of verbal and non-verbal experience that promote intellectual development are considered within the frames of both observed changes within children and cross-sectional studies of individual differences in mother-child interaction. The idea that the child's performance is context sensitive is one of the general ideas that has been taken increasingly into account. Two chapters pay close attention to this issue; both treat it as a challenge to experimental and theoretical ingenuity, recognizing that the child is an active participant in situations where he is observed and that the challenge is to divine the principles regulating the child's behavior.
List of Contributors
Preface
1. Negativity in Early Infant-Adult Exchanges and Its Developmental Significance
Initial Observations
Theoretical Views of Early Negativity
Empirical Reports of Negativity
Naturally-Occurring Negativity
Discussion
Conclusion: Asocial and Social Negativity
Acknowledgments
References
2. Non-Linguistic Information Which Could Assist the Young Child's Interpretation of Adults' Speech
Introduction
Study 1: Contiguity of Reference and Manipulation
Study 2: The Emphasis of Names of Objects
Acknowledgments
References
3. Collaboration and Confrontation with Young Children in Language Comprehension Testing
Introduction
Pilot Studies
Main Experiments
Conclusions and Wider Issues
Acknowledgments
References
4. From Interaction Strategies to Social Representation of Adults in a Day Nursery
Introduction
Method
Results: Adults' Behavior in a Play Situation
Results: Adults' System of Rules and Social Representation
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
5. Language Performance of Disadvantaged Children at 30 Months: Interpersonal and Other Environmental Influences
Introduction
Method
Results and Discussion
Two Case Studies: Zachary and Albert
Summary
General Conclusions
References
6. Mothers as Teachers and Their Children as Learners: a Study of the Influence of Social Interaction upon Cognitive Development
Cognitive Development and Social Mediation
Method
Results: Mother as Teacher
Results: The Child as Learner
Results: Mother-Child Relationships
Discussion
Acknowledgment
References
7. Mothers' Answers to Children's Questions: from Socio-Economic Status to Individual Differences
Introduction
SES Differences in Mothers' Reported Ways of Answering Children's Questions
SES Differences in the Ways Children Answer Questions
Associations between Mothers' Reports of Ways They Answer Their Children's Questions and Children's Answers: Mother-Child Pairs
Children's Answers and Questions in Relation to Mothers' Verbal Behavior
Discussion
References
8. Instruction Versus Conversation as Opportunities for Learning
Introduction
Seriation Training: Study 1
Kinds of Interaction in Relation to Progress in Seriation: Studies 2-5
Interpretation of Results
Changing Theoretical Context
Learning through Conversation: a Synthesis of Theories
Acknowledgments
References
9. Conflict and Cooperation as Opportunities for Learning
Is Learning an Individual Process?
The Interchange between the Child and the Social Setting: Communication, Understanding and Performance
Study 1: Social Context and Performance
Study 2: Social Context and Learning
Learning: a Process of Performing and Communicating within a Social Context
Acknowledgments
References
10. Conversational Tactics and the Advancement of the Child's Understanding about Referential Communication
Introduction
Deficiencies in the Young Child's Understanding about Verbal Referential Communication
Ways of Improving the Young Child's Performance and Understanding about Communication
Why Does Giving the Child Information Improve His Performance and Understanding?
Relationship between Mothers' Ways of Handling Communication Failure and Children's Understanding about Communication
Summary and Conclusions
Acknowledgments
References
11. Some Problems for Theory, Methodology, and Methods for the 1980s
Introduction
Theoretical Perspectives
Methodology
Methods of Study
Concluding Remarks
References
Author Index
Subject Index
- No. of pages: 310
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 28, 1981
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9781483245478
- Hardback ISBN: 9780125901406
- eBook ISBN: 9781483266862
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