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Pathways to Language
A remarkable mother-daughter collaboration balances the respected views of a well-known scholar with the fresh perspective of a younger colleague in a comprehensive overview of the theory and practice of language acquisition.
Understanding Your Baby
Babies arrive in the world already equipped with many skills, reflexes and instincts that help them adapt to and influence their environment as well as the people who fill it. The mother-and-daughter team of Kyra Karmiloff, a research psychologist, and Dr Annette Karmiloff-Smith, a professorial research fellow at the Developmental Neurocognition Lab at Birkbeck College, University of London, 'translate' the latest scientific findings on infant behaviour, the development of gross and fine motor skills and intelligence, and how infants produce language and experience the social world, as well as offering helpful tips and suggestions about how parents can positively influence their child's journey towards independence.
Understanding Your Baby
Babies arrive in the world already equipped with many skills, reflexes and instincts that help them adapt to and influence their environment as well as the people who fill it. The mother-and-daughter team of Kyra Karmiloff, a research psychologist, and Dr Annette Karmiloff-Smith, a professorial research fellow at the Developmental Neurocognition Lab at Birkbeck College, University of London, 'translate' the latest scientific findings on infant behaviour, the development of gross and fine motor skills and intelligence, and how infants produce language and experience the social world, as well as offering helpful tips and suggestions about how parents can positively influence their child's journey towards independence.
Everything Your Baby Would Ask
A delightful and informative reference. One of the most daunting adjustments for new parents is understanding their baby's mind. This is especially true when trying to determine the source of their infant's discomfort. Far from being helpless or passive, babies display extraordinary skills and capabilities that largely go unnoticed simply because adults don't know what to look for. Babies communicate in many ways including conveying anxieties and fears that parents can soothe. Everything Your Baby Would Ask is an enchanting and ultimately practical book that offers unique insight into what life is really like for a baby. Using a series of questions babies might ask if only they could talk, t...
Living Narrative
This pathbreaking book looks at everyday storytelling as a twofold phenomenon--a response to our desire for coherence, but also to our need to probe and acknowledge the enigmatic aspects of experience. Letting us listen in on dinner-table conversation, prayer, and gossip, Elinor Ochs and Lisa Capps develop a way of understanding the seemingly contradictory nature of everyday narrative--as a genre that is not necessarily homogeneous and as an activity that is not always consistent but consistently serves our need to create selves and communities. Focusing on the ways in which narrative is co-constructed, and on the variety of moral stances embodied in conversation, the authors draw out the instructive inconsistencies of these collaborative narratives, whose contents and ordering are subject to dispute, flux, and discovery. In an eloquent last chapter, written as Capps was waging her final battle with cancer, they turn to unfinished narratives, those stories that will never have a comprehensible end. With a hybrid perspective--part humanities, part social science--their book captures these complexities and fathoms the intricate and potent narratives that live within and among us.
Toward an Evolutionary Biology of Language
In this forcefully argued book, the leading evolutionary theorist of language draws on evidence from evolutionary biology, genetics, physical anthropology, anatomy, and neuroscience, to provide a framework for studying the evolution of human language and cognition. Philip Lieberman argues forcibly that the widely influential theories of language's development, advanced by Chomskian linguists and cognitive scientists, especially those that postulate a single dedicated language "module," "organ," or "instinct," are inconsistent with principles and findings of evolutionary biology and neuroscience. He argues that the human neural system in its totality is the basis for the human language abilit...
Self-reflexivity in Literature
Introduction - C. Henke: Self-Reflexivity and Common Sense in A Tale of a Tub and Tristram Shandy: Eighteenth-Century Satire and the Novel - C. Goer: Wie Tyrann Amor seine Meisterin fand: Die Geburt des Individuums aus dem Geist der Musik in Wilhem Heinses Musikroman Hildegard von Hohenthal - H. Breuer: John Keats' Ode To Autumn als Metapoesie - H. Zapf: Structure, Chaos, and Self-Reference in Edgar Allan Poe - U. Böker: "A raid on the inarticulate:" Hawthorne, Hopkins, Hofmannsthal - T. Fischer-Seidel: Archetypal Structures and Literature in Joyce's Ulysses: Aristotle, Frye, and the Plot of Ulysses - P. Freese: Trouble in the House of Fiction: Bernard Malamud's The Tenants - B. Hesse: "The...
Bilingual
Whether in family life, social interactions, or business negotiations, half the people in the world speak more than one language every day. Yet many myths persist about bilingualism and bilinguals. In a lively and entertaining book, an international authority on bilingualism explores the many facets of life with two or more languages.
Getting to Know Your Baby
Useful and unique insights into the psychology, behavior, and development of babies—perfect for any new parent Babies arrive in the world already equipped with many skills, reflexes, and instincts that help them adapt to and influence their environment as well as the people who fill it. This book aims to help parents see the world as their baby does so that they become better equipped to help this learning process along. It explains how babies find out about themselves and their physical and social environments through a combination of interaction, experience, trial and error, and nurturing. It is divided into five sections dealing with different aspects of a baby's life, from birth through to toddler years. Throughout, there are helpful tips and suggestions about how parents can positively influence their child's journey towards independence through a better understanding of the world from a baby's perspective.
