Narratives from the Crib [Unknon]

This book is intriguing for several reasons... In the present collection, full advantage has been taken of the richness of the source material through analyses carried out by researchers who have widely differing interests: cognitive, linguistic, social, psychoanalytic... I would recommendNarratives from the Cribto anyone interested in the study of early development in the related areas of language and cognition.In this volume,Nelsonhas delivered an outstanding set of case studies and commentaries concerning the genesis of human language and thought. But because she has drawn her case students from a broad array of contemporary outlooks and modes of thinking concerning the realm of human phenomenology, hers is far more than a book about the structures and dynamics of speech and language. It is one that demonstrates, simply, the power of thought (admittedly, in these instances, the highly sophisticated thought of some very powerful thinkersindividuals no less luminous or further removed from the past excesses of case study than the likes of Jerome Bruner, John Dore, Daniel Stern, and, of course, Nelson herself) to elucidate the realm of human phenomenology in its early verbalized phases and forms...Narratives from the Cribis an absorbing, instructive, and richly stimulating assembly of commentaries on early childhood self-expression. It is instructive also with regard to how case studies ought to be made and rendered in relation to topics that are of scientific importance... The reader will encounter cleanly and compactly reasoned essays on the dynamics and meaning-generating communications of a loquacious and endearing toddler by authors who for the most part seem to ask more that our thinking be challenged than that theirs be simply received.Narratives from the Cribis an intriguing collection of chapters concerning one child's talk to herself in her crib before sleep... The chapters in this book provide a mirror on how one child views hl£ã