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

By Koji Komatsu

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030199258
• ISBN13: 9783030199258
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"