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The Grammar of Autobiography - A Developmental Account (Paperback)
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This is the first book to bring together four distinct
literatures--functional linguistics, child language, narrative
development, and discursive psychology. It is an outgrowth of the
historical relationship between psychology and linguistics,
especially the post-Wittgensteinian "turn to language." Relevant
issues are situated at that interface in a way that should prove
accessible to both linguists with little or no psychological
knowledge and to psychologists with no linguistics background are
addressed. Previously, there have been volumes on the theses of
discursive psychology and social constructionism and volumes on the
workings and theories of functional linguistics, but none have
attempted to link the two as natural bedfellows in this way. While
clearly situated within the spirit of the Berkeley school, it goes
beyond it by virtue of linking functional linguistics and
discursive psychology, and by doing this ontogenetically. Overall,
this book is an investigation of the psycholinguistic thesis of the
social construction of selfhood and the psychology of everyday
life. Featuring the only book-length studies of the use of
grammatical analysis as a research strategy in psychology, it
integrates issues of human development and child language in a new
way. It deals in careful linguistic analyses, examining the role of
grammatical forms in constituting context which involves an
examination of their functions that are then used to highlight
fundamental aspects of development. The linguistic analyses are
treated as a testing ground for the ideas and claims made in
discursive psychology. The discussion deals with many of the
current issues in psychology and related disciplines, including
narrative, morality, agency, and responsibility, in order to show
the central role of language in human functioning.
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