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- Title
Communicative Development from Birth.
- Authors
Elliott, Norman
- Abstract
Communicative development is located in interaction rather than a particular developing individual. This course of interactive change, beginning at birth, is described by three general but distinct types of interactivity: primordial sharing, proto-conversation, and conversation. The nature of reference, first deictic then anaphoric, is identified as the mechanism of change through this general course. In primordial sharing meaning and context are undifferentiated. "You and me" is both the context and the meaning of interaction. The employment of deixis in proto-conversational interaction permits meaning to be distinguished from context. Reference and predication remain undifferentiated, however, producing ambiguity of meaning in these interactions. Proto-conversations appear focused on this ambiguity of action. Finally, the use of anaphora is the basis for conversation in the adult sense. Anaphoric reference transforms context and permits understanding and action to be generated within interaction.
- Subjects
CHILD development; CHILDREN'S language; ORAL communication; SPEECH; CHILDREN
- Publication
Western Journal of Speech Communication: WJSC, 1984, Vol 48, Issue 2, p184
- ISSN
0193-6700
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/10570318409374153