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Volume 3, Issue 2
  • ISSN 1568-1475
  • E-ISSN: 1569-9773
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Abstract

This paper examines the intentionality of very young children’s communicative action by looking at interactional sequences that are touched off by a child’s point. Young children use points and vocalizations, including “proto words,” to orient to some feature of their situation in a manner that makes relevant a response by the caregiver. These gestures initiate interactional sequences through which the caregiver locates a candidate specification of the point’s target. The child’s point is oriented to by caregivers as a recognizable action directed to some end. We suggest that intentionality, is a feature of participants’ production and recognition of actions becomes visible in interaction between the child and the caregiver as it unfolds in a particular situation. The electronic edition of this article includes audio-visual data.

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2003-01-01
2025-04-24
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  • Article Type: Research Article
Keyword(s): child development; intentionality; interaction; language socialization; pointing
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