Communication - An Arena of Development

In the past decade, psychology has increasingly acknowledged the importance of considering the role of culture for understanding human development. One of the major issues now confronting those interested in this issue is how cultural meanings, values, and practices are appropriated by persons growing up and living in concrete contexts. The general theme addressed in this volume concerns how enactments of cultural understandings in social interactions form the fabric of individual experience and the specificities of individual development.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Foreword
Introduction: Communication, Meaning and Development: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Part I. The Organization of Communication: Intersubjectivity and Alterity in Human Communication
Emotion Within Situated Activity
Language and Communication--What Develops?
Determining the Role of Language Practices for a Theory of Development
Part II. The Origins of Communication: Preverbal Communication: Emergence of Representative Symbols
Infant into Conversant: Language and Nonlanguage Processes in Developing Early Communication
Words Don't Tell All: Some Thoughts On Early Communication Development
Verbal and Nonverbal Contributions to Early Representation: Evidence from African American Toddlers
Part III. The Emergence of Self in Communication: Groundwork for a Holistic View of the Ontogenesis of Representation
Language and the Construction of Self
Adolescents' Public Discussion and Collective Identity
Author Index
Subject Index

Product details

• Assisted by: Nancy Budwig (Editor), Budwig Nancy (Editor), Ina C. Uzgiris (Editor), Uzgiris Ina C. (Editor), James V. Wertsch (Editor), Wertsch James V. (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.12.1999
• EAN: 9781567504576
• ISBN: 978-1-56750-457-6
• No. of pages: 264
• Weight: 340 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Cultural Studies, PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Child, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Child & developmental psychology, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology, Social and cultural anthropology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Psychology: Developmental