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Heller2019
BibType ARTICLE
Key Heller2019
Author(s) Vivien Heller
Title Embodied displacements in young German children’s storytelling: Layering of spaces, voices and bodies
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Tag(s) EMCA, German, Children, Storytelling, Embodiment, Reading
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Year 2019
Language English
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Journal Research on Children and Social Interaction
Volume 3
Number 1-2
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DOI 10.1558/rcsi.37311
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Abstract

This paper is concerned with embodied processes of joint imagination in young children’s narrative interactions. Based on Karl Bühler’s notion of ‘deixis in the imagination’, it examines in detail how a 19-month-old German-speaking child, engaged in picture book reading with his mother, brings about different subtypes of deixis in the imagination by either ‘displacing’ what is absent into the given order of perception (e.g. by using the hand as a token for an object) or displacing his origo to an imagined space (e.g. by kinaesthetically aligning his body with an imagined body and animating his movements). Drawing on multimodal analysis and the concept of layering in interaction, the study analyses the ways in which the picture book as well as deictic, depictive, vocal and lexical resources are coordinated to evoke a narrative space, co-enact the storybook character’s experiences and produce reciprocal affect displays. Findings demonstrate that different types of displacement are in play quite early in childhood; displacements in the dimension of space and person are produced through layerings of spaces, voices and bodies.

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