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Re: [xmca] Concerning the origins of Pointing



Thanks for that Mike. Ask a question on this list and the answer is not long in coming. A case of joint attention I guess.

As I understand this excerpt, the idea of pointing growing out of attempted grasping in ontogenetic development is ruled out, but the "precision grasping" movement with thumb and forefinger and the pointing gesture with thumb *not* opposing the forefinger are co-evolved reflexes (?) and the discovery is pushed back from Vygotsky and Dewey to Darwin (sort of). And co-attention (gaze-following) precedes pointing at distant objects.

All of which points to the communicative functions developing ontogenetically in advance of I->object functions. Is that right? And we should take the grasping-then-pointing idea really just as part of our history.

thanks Mike.
you work too hard!

Andy

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