Communication: An Arena of Development

by Nancy Budwig (Editor), Ina C. Uzgiris (Editor), James V. Wertsch (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781567504569
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	12/22/1999
Series:	Advances in Applied Developmental Psychology , #19
Pages:	260
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.75(d)

Table 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

Editorial Reviews

A multidisciplinary look at the role of verbal and nonverbal processes in human development, particularly the organization and origins of communication and the emergence of self in communication. The 11 studies, from an April 1996 conference at Clark University in Massachusetts, discuss intersubjectivity and alterity, the emergence of representative symbols in preverbal communication, public discussion and collective identity among adolescents, and other topics. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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