"This book is the product of a multi-year collaboration emphasizing use of the theory of Intercultural Communicative Competence and Intercultural Citizenship in practice."--Page xi.
This book presents a detailed analysis of the beginning of communication. Using an established coding scheme and digital video technology, the author describes communicative acts in infants and children in six age groups from six to twenty-four months. Ample examples provide an insight into the complex world of the onSet of communication and provide a more fine-grained view of specific communicative acts while statistical analyses open up the opportunity to compare and describe preverbal communicative development of various types.