Introduction: Monologues in the Crib Katherine Nelson Part I: Constructing a World 1. Monologue as Representation of Real-Life Experience Katherine Nelson 2. Monologue as Narrative Recreation of the World Jerome Bruner and Joan Lucariello 3. Monologue as Problem-Solving Narrative Carol Fleisher Feldman Part II: Constructing a Language 4. Monologue as Development of the Text-Forming Function of Language Elena Levy 5. Monologue as a Speech Genre Julie Gerhardt 6. Monologue as Reenvoicement of Dialogue John Dore Part III: Constructing a Self 7. Monologue, Dialogue, and Regulation Rita Watson 8. Monologue as the Linguistic Construction of Self in Time Katherine Nelson 9. Crib Monologues from a Psychoanalytic Perspective Daniel N. Stern Notes References Contributors Index
Katherine Nelson is Distinguished Professor of Psychology Emerita at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
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 recommend Narratives from the Crib
to anyone interested in the study of early development in the
related areas of language and cognition. -- Sandra Bochner *
Educational Psychology *
In this volume, Nelson has 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 thinkers-individuals 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 Crib is 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. -- Thomas M. Horner * Readings: A Journal of Reviews and
Commentary in Mental Health *
Narratives from the Crib is 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 her world and how that view develops... The chapters of
this book provide important theoretical groundwork and point toward
important issues that stringent experimental investigations should
address. -- Judith C. Goodman * Contemporary Psychology *
In Narratives from the Crib Katherine Nelson brings
us a...complex and extensive set of data with sophisticated
analyses of a single child's monologues... With the changes in
American linguistics over the past quarter century and the growth
of child language acquisition studies, there is little that is
peripheral and much that is fascinating about these analyses of
Emily's language development... Narratives from the Crib
reopens the window on the fascinating private speech of a child,
influenced but not controlled by parental actions and dialogue-a
window first opened almost thirty years ago by Ruth Weir, but now
revealing unexpected complexities in language development. Whether
or not we hear more about Emily in the future, young children's
narratives should move from the periphery toward the center of
child language acquisition studies as the result of Nelson's
important volume. -- Julia S. Falk * Language *
In Narratives from the Crib, a group of developmental
psychologists organized by Katherine Nelson offers nine
enlightening and lively construals of crib speech. Each takes as a
data base the same 122 monologues of Emily, a precocious 2-year-old
whose naptime or nighttime solitary speechifying was
surreptitiously tape-recorded by her parents over a yearlong
period... These essays offer keen insights into the 'inner life' of
a child and qualify as a most fascinating and sophisticated set of
reflections and speculations on a very common, very rich
psychological phenomenon of early childhood. -- Marc H. Bornstein *
Science Books and Films *
Narratives from the Crib goes beyond a simple description of
language development. It provides the reader with diverse but
integrated examinations of Emily's cognitive, linguistic, and
social development. Furthermore, this book supports the
social-interaction theory by presenting detailed analyses of the
young child's developing mind in terms of language, narrative, and
thought. -- M. M. Abraham * Harvard Educational Review *
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