Overview

Sharing books at home is an integral part of the socialisation of young children into literacy. In an original and wide-ranging study, Rhian Jones documents the unique contribution which picturebooks and stories make to the development of the infant mind between the ages of nine months and two years, using videorecorded data to chart children's progress. She then analyses the connections between these very early behaviours and subsequent achievements in literacy. The work integrates research from a number of disciplines: linguistics, psychology, literary, psychoanalysis and anthropology, to draw out the different levels at which book-based interactions may be seen to be 'working'. Issues of general theoretical relevance to early childhood are comprehensively examined for the first time in a reading setting such as language acquisition, the construction and expression of the infant self, and the relation between affect and achievement. lWritten in an accessible and readable style, Emerging Patterns of Literacy will be of interest to specialists in developmental psychology, language acquisition, literacy and early childhood development, teachers, speech therapists and child psychotherapists. l Rhian Jones is a member of the Child Language Acquisition and Pathology Research Group at the University of Paris Rene' Decartes.

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Author:   Rhian Jones
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Volume:   No.1
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.589kg
ISBN:  

9780415130493

ISBN 10:   0415130492
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   10 October 1996
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1 Part I Infant–parent interaction 1 READING AND THE VERY YOUNG INFANT 2 A SENSE OF SELF: THE INFANT AS INDIVIDUAL Part II The semantics of picturebook reading 3 PICTUREBOOK READING AND WORD MEANING 4 PICTUREBOOK READING AS EVENT INTERPRETATION Part III The ontogenesis of narrative 5 THE WORLD OF THE STORY 6 STORY GRAMMAR AND TEXT Part IV Further aspects of the self 7 MATERNAL SPEECH AND INFANT PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT 8 EMERGENT LITERACY: A WINNICOTTIAN VIEW, CONCLUDING REMARKS

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Rhian Jones is a member of the Child Language Acquisition and Pathology Research Group at the University of Paris René Descartes.

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