From Early Interaction Patterns To Language Acquisition: Which Continuity?

Chapters in this book

1. i-iv i
2. Preface v
3. Contents vii
4. List of Contributors ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Issues in Theory and Method of Studying Children's Worlds
7. Studying Children's Worlds: Methodological Issues 13
8. Caught in a Web of Words: Some Considerations on Language Socialization and Language Acquisition 37
9. The Preschool Years
10. The Preschool Years 65
11. From Early Interaction Patterns To Language Acquisition: Which Continuity? 69
12. The Construction of Joint Activities with an Age-Mate: The Transition from Caregiver-Child to Peer Play 83
13. The Social World of Kwara'ae Children: Acquisition of Language and Values 109
14. The Social Construction of the Sibling Relationship 129
15. Rules in Action: Orderly Features of Actions that Formulate Rules 147
16. Nursery School and the Early Grades
17. Nursery School and the Early Grades 169
18. The Young Child's Image of the Person and the Social World: Some Aspects of the Child's Representation of Persons 173
19. Development of Communicative Skills: The Construction of Fictional Reality in Children's Play 205
20. Routines in Peer Culture 231
21. A Silent World of Movements. Interactional Processes among Deaf Children 253
22. Middle Childhood and Adolescence
23. Middle Childhood and Adolescence 289
24. Towards Reciprocity: Politics, Rank and Gender in the Interaction of a Group of Schoolchildren 295
25. Activity Structure as Scaffolding for Children's Second Language Learning 327
26. Adult Elicited Child Behavior: The Paradox of Measuring Social Competence Through Interviewing 359
27. Learning How to Become an Interlocutor. The Verbal Negotiation of Common Frames of Reference and Actions in Dyads of 7 – 1 4 Year Old Children 377
28. The Social Organization of Adolescent Gossip: The Rhetoric of Moral Evaluation 405
29. Learning How to Contradict and Still Pursue a Common End – The Ontogenesis of Moral Argumentation 425
30. Subject Index 479