The Cultural Organization of Attention

The Handbook of Language Socialization

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 29-55

  Brown, Penelope ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

'common ground' (Clark 1996) and 'grounding' between American mothers and infants; Anthropological, cross cultural literature on childhood cultural variation, infants socially engaged; Baseline of infant interaction, long stretches interactions, among nine Rossel Island infants; Caregiver infant interaction, in Mexico and Papua New Guinea face to face communicative behaviors; Interactional foundations cultural organization of attention; Joint attention in infant caregiver interaction, first 12 months in joint attention; Labelling the object helping infants, to learn the word; Language socialization, socialization into language its use in interaction; Language use, bedrock of human competencies in social interaction; Social practices in caregiver infant interactions joint attention in learning, communicative partner

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EID: 84878360503     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444342901.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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