Meaning-Making for Living : : The Emergence of the Presentational Self in Children's Everyday Dialogues.

• Superior document: SpringerBriefs in Psychology Series
• Author: Komatsu, Koji.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2019.; ©2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Psychology Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (153 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Series Editor's Preface -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- About the Author -- Chapter 1: Who Can Know My Self? A New Look into Psychological Inquiries Into the Self -- We Construct Meaning to Live on: Facing the Future -- How Interaction Develops to Describe a Child: A Foundation of the Emerging Self -- A Need for a New Perspective for Looking at the Self in Interaction -- Meaning Construction and an Emergence of the Self in Natural Interaction -- What Works for Our Meaning Construction: Focusing on Two Aspects of Interaction -- Chapter 2: Self as Gestalt Quality -- Emergence of the Self and Gestalt Quality -- Presentation as a Mode of Symbolism -- The Complexity of Meaning Construction: Vygotsky's Perspective -- A Semiotic Approach for the Site of Meaning Construction -- Inquiries Into the Self on the Basis of a Semiotic Approach: How Meaning Construction Develops in the Dialectic Tensions in Life -- Chapter 3: Selves Emerging in Meaning Construction: An Analysis of Mother-Child Conversation from a Semiotic Perspective -- Perspectives on Child Development in Talk -- Personal Storytelling and the Development of Children's Selves -- Focus on the Conversation Concerning Everyday Transition in Children's Lives -- Data Collection and Preliminary Analysis -- Why Others? The Starting Point of Meaning Construction -- Making Multiple Contrasts of Self and Others: The Role of Culturally Constructed Categories -- Construction of the Presentational Self as a Development at the Microgenetic Level -- How Signs Work in Conversation: A Description of the Dialectic Tension of Meaning -- How Meaning Develops in Conversation: Sequence of Differentiation -- The Potential of Proper Nouns -- How Concepts Work Together to Construct a Configuration: An Analysis of Yuuma's Stories -- Enumeration Shifts to the Personal -- Conclusion.

Chapter 4: Rethinking the Frameworks of Psychology: What the Self Was and What it Was Not in Developmental Psychology -- The Complex of Perspectives and Methods for Understanding Children's Selves -- The Self is From Twofold Meaning Construction -- Formalizing the Presentational Self: Three Perspectives -- Modalities of Understanding Children's Selves -- Comparing Understandings of Children's Selves -- Conclusion: An All-Inclusive Perspective for Children's Selves -- Chapter 5: Construction of Selves Through Written Stories -- Children's Writings About Their Experiences in Japanese School Education -- The Historical Background of Children's Writings About Their Experiences -- Children's Writings and Our Understanding of Children's Selves -- Approaching Children's Personal Stories in Nikki -- A Fundamental Process of Meaning Construction in Nikki Writing: Describing Events in Time -- The Self in the Construction of Ordered Configurations of Events -- Absence of the Substantial Dialogical Partnership in Writing -- Construction of Relationships with Readers -- Different Types of Otherness in the Process of Writing -- The Development of Meaning Construction beyond Enumeration -- The Extension of Meaning Construction into the Details of Experiences -- Introducing Dialogue into the Field of Meaning Construction -- Otherness as the Promoter of Meaning Construction -- Conclusion: The Presentational Self from Multiple Dialogues in Writings -- Chapter 6: Reunion with Others: Foundations of the Presentational Self in Daily Lives -- Why Do Children (and We) Occasionally Go Into and Develop Meaning Construction? -- The Potential of Mundane Settings for Meaning Construction -- Reunions in Our Lives Show a Two-Sided Nature: An Inevitable Consequence of Modern Life and a Commodity to Be Consumed -- The Foundation of Reunion: Two Dialectic Tensions.

Reunion, Prediction, and Psychology -- The Role of Dialogical Meaning Construction in Reunion -- Reunion in Music: An Analogical Discussion on the Regulation of Reunion -- Suggestions from the Trials of Music History: A Focus on the Openness of Reality -- Conclusion and Further Questions: Our Lives (and Our Research) Do Not Proceed like a Beautiful Music -- Chapter 7: The Visibility of the Invisible: What Propels Meaning Construction in Our Lives -- Invisibility by Substantial Obstacles: A Simple Pattern of Impediment -- Invisibility Due to Physical Impediments and Meaning Construction -- Visibility by the Semiotic Extension of the World: An Extension from Physical Invisibility -- Another Form of Invisibility for Promoting Children's Meaning Construction -- The Complex of Two Types of Invisibility and Meaning Construction -- The Visibility of the Invisible Other: Struggles in History -- Regulation of Visibility for Construction of the Self -- Conclusion: Ambivalence of Visibility -- Chapter 8: The Dialectic Dynamics of Same &lt -- &gt -- Non-Same and Human Development -- The Dialectic Tension Concerning Sameness as Ubiquitous Dynamics -- Focus on the Repetition and Its Amplitude -- Our mind Emerges and Develops in the Similarity of Behaviors -- Conclusion: Spring Up in Repetition, Happen to Be Self -- Chapter 9: The Presentational Self and Meaning Construction in Our Lives -- A Relational View on the Self in Meaning Construction -- Dialogical Process in Meaning Construction and the Emergence of the Self -- Dynamics of Daily Lives that Enable Meaning Construction -- The Indivisibility of Relationship, Meaning Construction, and the Self -- Commentary 1 An Original Contribution With Great Potential -- Presentational Self and Cultural Psychology -- Self in a Cultural Frame -- Presentational Self in Applied Psychology -- Resilience.

Drop Out of Students From Educations -- Processes in Therapeutic Settings -- Interesting Aspects to Investigate in the Future -- Stability of Self -- Fields of Tension -- How to Research on Presentational Self -- Closing Remarks -- About the Author -- Commentary 2 Children Emerging Laughingly Through Dialogue -- Studying the Development of Children -- Theorising the Development of Children -- For Further Development -- About the Author -- References -- Index.