New Perspectives in Early Communicative Development - 9781138085480

Taylor & Francis

New Perspectives in Early Communicative DevelopmentAuthor(s): Jacqueline Nadel, Luigia Camaioni\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138085480, 978-1138085480\nSynopsis\nSince the 1970s researchers in the communicative development of infants and small children had rejected traditional models and began to explore the complex, dynamic properties of communicative exchanges. This title, originally published in 1993, proposed a new and advanced frame of reference to account for the growing body of empirical work on the emergence of communication processes at the time. \n\nCommunication development in the early years of life undergoes universal processes of change and variations linked to the characteristics and qualities of different social contexts. The first section of the book presents key issues in communication research which were either revisited (intentional communication, imitation, symbolic play) or newly introd.