Emerging Patterns Of Literacy: A Multidisciplinary Perspective (routledge Progress In Psychology, 1)

EMERGING PATTERNS OF LITERACY Sharing books at home is an integral part of the socialisation of young children into literacy. In an original and wide-ranging study, Rhian Jones documents the unique contribution which picturebooks and stories make to the development of the infant mind between the ages of 9 months and 2 years, using video-recorded data to chart children’s progress. She then analyses the connections between these very early behaviours and subsequent achievements in literacy. The work integrates research from a number of disciplines: linguistics, psychology, literary theory, psychoanalysis and anthropology, to draw out the different levels at which book-based interactions may be seen to be ‘working’. Issues of general theoretical relevance to early childhood are comprehensively examined for the first time in a reading setting, such as language acquisition, the construction and expression of the infant self, and the relation between affect and achievement. Written in an accessible and readable style, Emerging Patterns of Literacy will be of interest to specialists in developmental psychology, language acquisition, literacy and early childhood education, teachers, speech therapists and child psychotherapists. Rhian Jones is a member of the Child Language Acquisition and Pathology Research Group at the University of Paris René Descartes. ROUTLEDGE PROGRESS IN PSYCHOLOGY 1 Emerging Patterns of Literacy: a multidisciplinary perspective Rhian Jones EMERGING PATTERNS OF LITERACY A multidisciplinary perspective Rhian Jones London and New York First published 1996 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 © 1996 Rhian Jones All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this books is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data Jones, Rhian. Emerging patterns of literacy: a multidisciplinary perspective/Rhian Jones. (Routledge progress in psychology; 1) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Language acquisition – Parent participation. 2. Reading (Preschool). 3. Reading – Parent participation. 4. Child psychology. 5. Literacy. I. Title. II. Series P118.5.J66 1996 418'.4–dc20 96–594 ISBN 0-203-20463-8 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-20466-2 (Adobe e-Reader Format) ISBN 0-415-13049-2 (hbk) CONTENTS Acknowledgements vi Introduction 1 Part I Infant–parent interaction 20 1 READING AND THE VERY YOUNG INFANT 22 2 A SENSE OF SELF: THE INFANT AS INDIVIDUAL 45 Part II The semantics of picturebook reading 3 PICTUREBOOK READING AND WORD MEANING 4 PICTUREBOOK READING AS EVENT INTERPRETATION