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

ISBN-13: 9783030199258 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 144 str.

Koji Komatsu

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Who Can Know My Self? A New Look Into Psychological Inquiries Into the Self.- Chapter 2. Self as Gestalt Quality.- Chapter 3. Selves Emerging in Meaning Construction: An Analysis of Mother-Child Conversation from a Semiotic Perspective.- Chapter 4. Rethinking the Frameworks of Psychology: What the Self Was and What it Was Not in Developmental Psychology.- Chapter 5. Construction of Selves Through Written Stories.- Chapter 6. Reunion With Others: Foundations of the Presentational Self in Daily Lives.- Chapter 7. The Visibility of the Invisible: What Propels Meaning Construction in Our Lives.- Chapter 8. The Dialectic Dynamics of Same Non-Same and Human Development.- Chapter 9. The Presentational Self and Meaning Construction in Our Lives.- References.- Commentary 1: An Original Contribution with Great Potential.- Commentary 2: Children Emerging Laughingly Through Dialogue. 

O autorze

Koji Komatsu is an associate professor of psychology at Osaka Kyoiku University. The inquiry into the process of children’s meaning construction and the emergence of their selves presented in this book is the result of his longstanding interest in human development in society. In addition to this subject, he inquires into several topics concerning culture and mind that also describe our meaning construction in mundane lives.