Early Social Interaction - A Case Comparison of Developmental Pragmatics Psychoanalytic Theory

"When a young child begins to engage in everyday interaction, she has to acquire competencies that allow her to be oriented to the conventions that inform talk-in-interaction and, at the same time, deal with emotional or affective dimensions of experience. The theoretical positions associated with these domains - social action and emotion - provide very different accounts of human development and this book examines why this is the case. Through a longitudinal video-recorded study of one child learning how to talk, Michael Forrester develops proposals that rest upon a comparison of two perspectives on everyday parent-child interaction taken from the same data corpus - one informed by conversation analysis and ethnomethodology, the other by psychoanalytic developmental psychology. Ultimately, what is significant for attaining membership within any culture is gradually being able to display an orientation towards both domains - doing and feeling, or social action and affect"--

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Developmental pragmatics and conversation analysis; 3. Child-focused conversation analysis; 4. A psychoanalytic reading of early social relations; 5. Repression and displacement in everyday talk-in-interaction; 6. Research practices and methodological objects; 7. Learning how to repair; 8. Learning what not to say: repression and interactive vertigo; 9. A question of answering; 10. Interaction and the transitional space; 11. Self-positioning, membership and participation; 12. Discourses of the self and early social relations; 13. Social practice and psychological affect.

About the author

Michael A. Forrester is a Reader in Psychology at the University of Kent. His academic interests are in child development and language and, particularly, children's developing conversational skills.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Forrester, Michael A. Forrester, Michael A. (University of Kent Forrester, Forrester Michael A.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.11.2014
• EAN: 9781107044685
• ISBN: 978-1-107-04468-5
• No. of pages: 301
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Sociology, Language, Linguistics, PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / General, Social interaction, Psychology, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Child & developmental psychology, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology, Sociology & anthropology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), Applied linguistics for ELT