Re: narrative

vera p john-steiner (vygotsky who-is-at unm.edu)
Sun, 5 May 1996 17:47:01 -0600 (MDT)

I agree wityh your interpretation of Bruner's emphasis on narrative,
although I think Judy is also correct that it while very crucial to
meaning making and organizing of experience for very young children--and
crib talk has a very interesting history in this regard--it should not
overshadow the joint construction of language, meaning and identity which
is built with and into conversations,
Vera
Fri, 3 May 1996
pprior who-is-at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu wrote:

> My sense, perhaps especially from reading Bruner's analyses of Emily's crib
> narratives, is that Bruner sees narrative as particularly fundamental not
> because it is the dominant mode of discourse, but because it is a
> fundamental mode of perception and thought, the way children come to
> construct their on-going flow of experience--the events of their lives--and
> the framework within which they come to construct worlds through the
> sociocultural appropriation of symbolic means.
>
> Paul Prior
> p-prior who-is-at uiuc.edu
> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>
>
>

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