Narrative development in young children : gesture, imagery, and cohesion /
"As children begin to use language in early childhood, they produce increasingly large units of coherent speech, including narrative descriptions of events. This book examines the process of narrative development in young children, focusing on the development of 'cohesion' - the use o...
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Toward an embodied account of narrative development
- Part I. Narratives As Symbol Formation: 2. Narratives, cohesion and symbol formation; 3. Social and natural sources of change
- Part II. Social Sources of Cohesion: 4. Social sources of cohesion
- cohesive sources of coherence; 5. How early cohesion is grounded in enactment
- Part III. Gestures, Cohesion, and Narrative Development: 6. Dual semiosis and the roots of cohesion; 7. Gestural sources of early cohesion, insights from Ella's stories; 8. Gestures, cohesion, and symbol formation; 9. Implications for children with autism; 10. The material carrier
- Appendix 1. Transcription of Ella's speech and gestures
- Appendix 2. Ella and Father's Description of Rosie and Jim episodes.
