Narrative Development in Young Children - Gesture, Imagery, and Cohesion

Presents an account of social and embodied threads of early narrative development, of which gesture is an integral part.

List of contents

1. Toward an embodied account of narrative development; Part I. Narratives As Symbol Formation: 2. Narratives, cohesion and symbol formation; 3. Social and natural sources of change; Part II. Social Sources of Cohesion: 4. Social sources of cohesion - cohesive sources of coherence; 5. How early cohesion is grounded in enactment; Part III. Gestures, Cohesion, and Narrative Development: 6. Dual semiosis and the roots of cohesion; 7. Gestural sources of early cohesion - insights from Ella's stories; 8. Gestures, cohesion, and symbol formation; 9. Implications for children with autism; 10. The material carrier; Appendix 1. Transcription of Ella's speech and gestures; Appendix 2. Description of Rosie and Jim episodes (94 weeks; 23:00 on video).

About the author

Elena T. Levy is an Associate Professor in Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Connecticut. Her publications on narrative discourse include studies of typically developing children and adults, as well as individuals with autistic spectrum disorders. She is co-editor with Susan D. Duncan, Justine Cassell of Gesture and the Dynamic Dimension of Language (2007).David McNeill is Professor Emeritus in the Departments of Psychology and Linguistics at the University of Chicago. His publications include a 'trilogy' of gesture books, Hand and Mind (1992), Gesture and Thought (2005) and How Language Began: Gesture and Speech in Human Evolution (2012), plus an edited volume, Language and Gesture (2000).

Summary

As children begin to use language in early childhood, they produce increasingly larger units of coherent speech which include narrative descriptions of events. This book examines the process of narrative development in young children, focusing in particular on 'cohesion' - development of coherent perspectives on events, involving both speech and gesture.

Product details

• Authors: Elena Levy, Elena Mcneill Levy, Elena T. Levy, Elena T. (University of Connecticut) Levy, Elena T. (University of Connecticut) Mcneill Levy, Elena T. Mcneill Levy, David Mcneill, David (University of Chicago) McNeill, McNeill David
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2015
• EAN: 9781107041110
• ISBN: 978-1-107-04111-0
• No. of pages: 250
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Child & developmental psychology, Psycholinguistics, Language acquisition, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics