TY - BOOK ID - 75248 TI - Interaction and the development of mind PY - 1997 VL - 14 SN - 0521573416 0521022665 0511519893 9780521573412 9780511519895 9780521022668 PB - Cambridge: Cambridge university press, DB - UniCat KW - Psycholinguistics KW - Cognition in children. KW - Interpersonal communication in children. KW - Interpersonal relations in children. KW - Social interaction in children. KW - Social perception in children. KW - Social perception in children KW - Social interaction in children KW - Cognition in children KW - Interpersonal relations in children KW - Interpersonal communication in children KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Language & Linguistics KW - Child psychology KW - Cognition (Child psychology) KW - Thought and thinking in children KW - Perception in children UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:75248 AB - This study identifies key mechanisms through which a young child operates with external knowledge in her immediate social context. Central to this is the child's capacity to draw on discourse-based understandings which have become evident in prior interaction. These understandings are shown to inform and shape various aspects of the child's behaviour, notably request selection, the emergence of new request forms and various kinds of child distress, and they form the 'context' to which the child's actions come to be increasingly sensitive. In contrast to studies which analyse development under different headings, such as language, emotions and cognition, Tony Wootton links these aspects in his examination of the state of understanding which exists at any given moment in interaction. The result is a distinctive social constructivist approach to children's development. ER -