Early Social Interaction: A Case Comparison of Developmental Pragmatics and Psychoanalytic Theory

Michael A. Forrester

ISBN 10: 1107044685 / ISBN 13: 9781107044685

Published by Cambridge University Press, New York, New York, U.S.A., 2014

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Early Social Interaction: A Case Comparison of Developmental Pragmatics and Psychoanalytic Theory
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107044685
• ISBN 13: 9781107044685
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
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Synopsis

When a young child begins to engage in everyday interaction, she has to acquire competencies that allow her to be oriented to the conventions that inform talk-in-interaction and, at the same time, deal with emotional or affective dimensions of experience. The theoretical positions associated with these domains - social-action and emotion - provide very different accounts of human development and this book examines why this is the case. Through a longitudinal video-recorded study of one child learning how to talk, Michael A. Forrester develops proposals that rest upon a comparison of two perspectives on everyday parent-child interaction taken from the same data corpus - one informed by conversation analysis and ethnomethodology, the other by psychoanalytic developmental psychology. Ultimately, what is significant for attaining membership within any culture is gradually being able to display an orientation towards both domains - doing and feeling, or social-action and affect.

About the Author

Michael A. Forrester is a Reader in Psychology at the University of Kent. His academic interests are in child development and language and, particularly, children's developing conversational skills.