In Search of Mind: Essays in Autobiography (The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation series)

Medical Books

Jerome Bruner

Psychology

Harper&Row

Child's Talk: Learning to Use Language

Oxford University Press

How does a child acquire language, and what may facilitate this learning? In this book, renowned psychologist Jerome Bruner explores the child's most remarkable achievement.To carry out his investigations, Bruner went to "the clutter of life at home," the child's own setting for learning, rather than observing children in a "contrived video laboratory." For Bruner, language is learned by using it. An central to its use are what he calls "formats," scriptlike interactions between mother and childâ€”in short, play and games. What goes on in games as rudimentary as peekaboo or hide-and-seek can tell us much about language acquisition.But what aids the aspirant speaker in his attempt to use language? To answer this, the author postulates the existence of a Language Acquisition Support System that frames the interactions between adult and child in such a way as to allow the child to proceed from learning how to refer to objects to learning to make a request of another human being. And, according to Bruner, the Language Acquisition Support System not only helps the child learn "how to say it" but also helps him to learn "what is canonical, obligatory, and valued among those to whom he says it." In short, it is a vehicle for the transmission of our culture.

Child's Talk - Learning to Use Language

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

WW Norton & Co.

The growing child comes to understand the world, makes sense of experience and becomes a competent social individual. First published in 1978, Making Sense reflected the way in which developmental psychologists had begun to look at these processes in increasingly naturalistic, social situations. Rather than seeing the child as working in isolation, the authors of this collection take the view that 'making sense' involves social interaction and problem-solving. They particularly emphasize the role of language; its study both reveals the child's grasp of the frames of meaning in a particular culture, and demonstrates the subtleties of concept development and role-taking.

Making sense: The child's construction of the world

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

METHUEN

A study of thinking

Science & Math

Behavioral Sciences

R.E. Krieger Pub. Co.

La fabrica de historias

Universidad Nacional Aut?noma de M?xico

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