| Description |
xiv, 588 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
I. Editorial introduction -- The emergence of language / Andrew Lock -- II. Theoretical perspectives and a case study -- The biological and the social / M.P.M. Richards -- Dialogue and development / John Newson -- The cultural context of communication studies : theoretical and methodological issues / John Shotter -- The development of communication between blind infants and their parents / Cathy Urwin -- III. The evolutionary background -- Some basic traits of language in wild chimpanzees? / Frans X. Plooij -- Language in the orang-utan / Keith Laidler -- IV. Communicative actions and the establishment of gestures -- Learning to take an object from the mother / Hilary Gray -- Secondary intersubjectivity : confidence, confiding and acts of meaning in the first year / Colwyn Trevarthen and Penelope Hubley -- The transition from action to gesture / Roger A. Clark -- V. From gesture to symbol -- Sensori-motor intelligence and language development / David Ingram -- Word and gesture usage by an Indian child / Alicia Nokony -- From sensori-motor vocalizations to words : a case study of the evolution of attention-directing communication in the second year / Anne Lindsay Carter -- Beyond Herodotus : the creation of language by linguistically deprived deaf children / Heidi Feldman, Susan Goldin-Meadow and Lila Gleitman -- Structural parallels between language and action in development / Patricia Marks Greenfield -- VI. Symbols and society -- Social relations and early language / Derek Edwards -- Word, context and imitation / Linda Ferrier -- Context, word and meaning : towards a communicational analysis of lexical acquisition / Susan R. Braunwald -- The child as psychologist : construing the social world / M.M. Shields |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [557]-581 |
| SUBJECT |
Animal communication. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83702340
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| Subject |
Animal communication.
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Children -- Language.
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Language acquisition.
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Language and languages -- Origin.
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Nonverbal communication.
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| Author |
Lock, Andrew.
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| LC no. |
78052094 |
| ISBN |
0124540503 |
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