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Transmission of the Communicative Competence: Genetic, Cultural, When, and How?
Author(s) -
Papouŝek Hanuŝ
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
international journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.75
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1464-066X
pISSN - 0020-7594
DOI - 10.1080/00207599308246955
Subject(s) - psychology , communicative competence , interpretation (philosophy) , cognition , competence (human resources) , developmental psychology , cultural transmission in animals , cognitive psychology , cognitive science , social psychology , linguistics , neuroscience , evolutionary biology , pedagogy , biology , philosophy
Several recent contributions from various disciplines have improved the interpretation of determinants influencing the interrelated processes of speech acquisition, and cognitive and emotional development. The existence of precursors of abstract symbolisation and of words in the animal world suggest a continuity in the evolution of communicative capacities. In man, evolution has not only favoured a specific precocity in communicative development in infants, but also the co‐evolution of a species‐specific environmental support for speech acquisition in caretakers. Thus, speech acquisition results from both biogenetic predispositions and environmental support as it becomes evident in micro‐analysis of parent‐infant interactions and experimental verifications. The preverbal period of communicative development appears in a new light from theoretical and clinical views.