Forrester, Michael A. (2014) Early Social Interaction: A Case Comparison of Developmental Pragmatics and Psychoanalytic Theory. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 301 pp. ISBN 978-1-107-04468-5. (KAR id:45983)
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Abstract
This book brings together various threads of the research work I have been
involved with over a number of years. This research is based on a longitudinal
video recorded study of one ofmydaughters as shewas learning howto talk. The
impetus for engaging in this work arose from a sense that within developmental
psychology and child language, when people are interested in understanding
howchildren use language, they seem over-focused or concerned with questions
of formal grammar and semantics. My interest is on understanding how a
child learns to talk and through this process is then understood as being or
becoming a member of a culture. When a young child is learning how to
engage in everyday interaction she has to acquire those competencies that
allow her to be simultaneously oriented to the conventions that inform talk-ininteraction
and at the same time deal with the emotional or affective dimensions
of her experience. It turns out that in developmental psychology these domains
are traditionally studied separately or at least by researchers whose interests
rarely overlap. In order to understand better early social relations (parent–child
interaction), I want to pursue the idea that we will benefit by studying both
early pragmatic development and emotional development. Not surprisingly,
the theoretical positions underlying the study of these domains provide very
different accounts of human development and this book illuminates why this
might be the case. What follows will I hope serve as a case-study on the
interdependence between the analysis of social interaction and subsequent
interpretation.
Item Type: | Book |
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Psychology |
Depositing User: | Michael Forrester |
Date Deposited: | 12 Dec 2014 11:46 UTC |
Last Modified: | 09 Dec 2022 05:04 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/45983 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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