Before Speech
Before Speech
Long before they can make any sounds approaching language, infants can share in communication, though what this means is the subject of much scrutiny. This 1979 volume deliberately draws on people whose different backgrounds have brought them to explore questions that have a bearing on communication in this earliest phase of human infancy. This is, then, as Dr Bullowa says in her introduction, primarily a book about 'how scientists go about finding out how infants and adults communicate with one another'. It is nowhere dogmatic; contributors have all been encouraged to say why they came to do the research reported, how they set about it and what they discovered. Dr Bullowa herself provides a useful introduction which makes its own substantial contribution, while surveying the broad context of the particular research, discussing some of the themes that recur in the book and relating them to the wider literature.
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408 pages
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Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction: prelinguistic communication: a field for scientific research M. Bullowa
- 2. 'The epigenesis of conversational interaction': a personal account of research development M. C. Bateson
- 3. Evidence of communication in neonatal behavioral assesment T.B. Brazelton
- 4. Mutual regulation of the neonatal-maternal interactive: context for the origins of communication P.F. Chappell and L.W. Lander
- 5. Describing the structure of social interaction in infancy G.M. Collis
- 6. Neonata entrainment and enculturation W.S. Condon
- 7. Blind infants and their mothers: an examination of the sign system S. Fraiberg
- 8. One child's protolanguage M.A.K. Halliday
- 9. Thickening thin data: the maternal tole in devloping communication and language K. Kaye
- 10. The growth of shared understandings between infant and caregiver J. Newson
- 11. How wild chimpanzee babies trigger the onset of mother-infant play - and what the mother makes of it F. Plooij
- 12. Making sense of experience to make sensible sounds D. Ricks
- 13. Talking and playing with babies: the role of ideologies of child-rearing C.E. Snow, A. de Blauw and G. van Roosmalen
- 14. Early tactile communication and the patterning of human organization: a New Guinea case study E.R. Sorenson
- 15. Communication starts with selective attention K. Stensland Junker
- 16. Communication and cooperation in early infancy: a description of primary intersubjectivity C. Trevarthen
- 17. Structure of early face-to-face communicative interactions E. Tronick, H. Als and L. Adamson
- Bibliography (and citation and names index).
