Dialogic mind: the infant and the adult in protoconversation
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An infant's early communicative interaction largely takes the form of (but is not reduced to) protoconversation.
“An infant’s early communicative interaction largely takes the form of (but is not reduced to) what has since then been conceptualized as ‘protoconversation’ (Bråten, 1988; Levinson, 2006).”
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- Authors
- Bråten, S.
- Affiliations
- University of Oslo (NO)
- Corresponding author
- Bråten, Stein
- Venue
- Nature, Cognition and System I
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Published
- 1988
- Pages
- 187-205
- OpenAlex
- W75642571
- Cited by
- 71
- References
- 40
- Citations by year
- 2025: 2 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 2 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 0.49
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Springer eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Embodied and Extended Cognition
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Social Representations and Identity
- Keywords
- mother-infant interaction, operational closure, autopoiesis, intersubjectivity, reciprocity, symbolic representation
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