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
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• 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.