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The Emergence of Story-Telling

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The ability to tell stories marks a developmental milestone because story-telling relies on the use of language to talk about events removed from the here-and-now. This chapter will describe the emergence of story-telling through a single case analysis of a jointly constructed story between a father, his daughter who is about to celebrate her second birthday and her brother aged seven as they discuss both a past and a future birthday celebration, and the birthday as an event. The analysis aims to make visible the orderly features of the single sequence of talk and to capture knowledge in the making as all three participants share what they know about birthday celebrations, what they expect each other to know and how they work to establish a shared epistemic status.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The establishment of recipiency is an important and ongoing issue for development throughout the second year of life. Filipi (2015) provides a study of the same parent and bilingual child interaction that shows how the child establishes recipiency through the appropriate use of language to address the speaker.

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    Cassie is a bilingual Italian/English speaker. Bibi comes from the Italian bimbi–children, her word for child-care as well. She is at the stage of mixing Italian, which she speaks to her mother and English which she speaks to her father.

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    See Kim (2013) for analyses of well in this position.

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Filipi, A. (2017). The Emergence of Story-Telling. In: Bateman, A., Church, A. (eds) Children’s Knowledge-in-Interaction. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1703-2_15

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