About the Book
The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in liteature. Each volume presents contemporary responses on a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves.
Table of Contents:
Preface, Ruth A. Berman, Dan I. Slobin; Part I Introduction; Chapter Ia Different Ways of Relating Events: Introduction to the Study, Ruth A. Berman, Dan Isaac Slobin; Chapter Ib Research Goals and Procedures, Ruth A. Berman, Dan Isaac Slobin; Part II Development of Functions; Chapter IIa Narrative Structure, Ruth A. Berman, Dan Isaac Slobin; Chapter IIb Knowledge of Goal/Plans: A Conceptual Basis for Narrating Frog, where are you?, Tom Trabasso, Philip C. Rodkin; Part III Development of Linguistic Forms; Chapter III0 Overview of Linguistic Forms in the Frog Stories, Ruth A. Berman, Dan Isaac Slobin; Chapter IIIa Development of Linguistic Forms: English, Ruth A. Berman, Dan Isaac Slobin; Chapter IIIb Development of Linguistic Forms: German, Michael Bamberg; Chapter IIIc Development of Linguistic Forms: Spanish, Eugenia Sebastián, Dan I. Slobin; Chapter IIId Development of Linguistic Forms: Hebrew, Ruth A. Berman, Yonni Neeman; Chapter IIIe Development of Linguistic Forms: Turkish, Ayhan A. Aksu-Koç; Part IV Development of Form-Function Relations; Chapter IV0 Form-Function Relations in the Development of Narrative, Ruth A. Berman, Dan Isaac Slobin; Chapter IVa Temporal Relations in Narrative: Simultaneity, Ayhan Aksu-Koç, Christiane von Stutterheim; Chapter IVb The Development of Relative Clause Functions in Narrative, Lisa Dasinger; Chapter IVc Filtering and Packaging in Narrative, Ruth A. Berman, Dan Isaac Slobin; Chapter IVd Foreshadowing and Wrapping up in Narrative, Michael Bamberg, Virginia Marchman; Part V Conclusions; Chapter V0 Implications, Ruth A. Berman, Dan Isaac Slobin; Chapter Va Becoming a Proficient Speaker, Ruth A. Berman, Dan Isaac Slobin; Chapter Vb Becoming a Native Speaker, Ruth A. Berman, Dan Isaac Slobin; bm-Chapter 1 Coda, Ruth A. Berman, Dan Isaac SlobinAppendices, Ruth A. Berman, Dan Isaac Slobinfn_app1_1 Frog, where are you?, Mercer MayerGlossing and Transcription Conventions, Ruth A. Berman, Dan Isaac SlobinResearch Using Frog, where are you?, by Mercer Mayer, Ruth A. Berman, Dan Isaac Slobin;
About the Author :
Ruth A. Berman Department of Linguistics Tel Aviv University Ramat Aviv, Israel 69978 e-mail: rberman@ccsg.tau.ac.il
Dan I. Slobin Department of Psychology University of California Berkeley, CA 94720 USA e-mail: slobin@cogsci.berkeley.edu
Review :
"This book has been long awaited by students of narrative development, child language acquisition, and cross-linguistic comparisons of language development....an important resource for anyone who wants to study or understand narrative (form and function)....This book constitutes a fundamental and important piece of work. All the authors are to be congratulated."
—TESL-EJ
"Focusing on crosslinguistic and typological aspects, this volume is a pioneering work that painstakingly addresses the issues of how the structural properties and rhetorical preferences of different native languages have an effect on narrative discourse abilities across different stages of language/narrative development."
—Journal of Narrative and Life History
"It is a book full of attention to linguistic forms, but written not only for linguists. Its importance comes from the rich and detailed data, and the distinction between what is age-specific--cognitive and communicative side of narrative activity, understanding of ample hierarchies of events--and what is language-specific in narrative activity."
—First Language
"This book is therefore of great value for anyone with a professional interest in a more detailed treatment of how linguistic conventions are acquired in different language communities and how the particular features of their language uniquely contribute to this process."
—Studies in School Language Acquisition
"This book represents a major achievement by the two editors and it reflects the depth and breadth of experience in developmental crosslinguistic research for which they are both so well-known....the book clearly and convincingly demonstrates an increase in the complexity of 'narrative packaging' as children develop. This is, of course, relatively well known, but this book supports and extends this with a wealth of rich detail, crosslinguistic range and insight....I have no doubt that this is one of the most useful and informative books on the development of narrative structure to have appeared in a very long time."
—Functions of Language
