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| Author(s): |
Luciana Aparecida Rodrigues
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Ribeirão Preto. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto (PCARP/BC) |
| Defense date: | 2011-07-04 |
| Examining board members: |
Katia de Souza Amorim;
Maria Clotilde Therezinha Rossetti Ferreira;
Maria Isabel Patricio de Carvalho Pedrosa
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| Advisor: | Katia de Souza Amorim |
| Abstract | |
A bibliographic research was made aiming to comprehend the infant development as well as to discuss some processes related to it. It was apprehended that infants show a broad repertoire of competencies and capabilities which are fundamental to establish and keep their social interactions. It was also highlighted the nature of these with interactions which are interspersed with communication involving synchrony, co-regulation and contingency of behavior shown by infants and caregivers. During specific investigation concerning the communication only, it was noticed the precocious establishment of a communication system between the dyadic. It was also noticed the ways to which the communication begins and where communication abilities are initiated. However, the microgenesis of the transformation process of the infant communication was not a priority during the majority of the investigation. Taking this gap into consideration the aim was to: a) highlight some of the infant\'s ways of expression through which it\'s apprehended the establishment and maintenance of the communication with caregivers and also to situate it into the sociocultural context in which they are developed; and b) empirically investigate this transformation concreteness along the five first years of life. The study was conducted based on the theoretical methodological perspective of Net of Meanings, which is theoretically substantiated by Vygotsky, Bakhtin and Wallon. This empirical study was structured by a longitudinal case study, in which the infant Marina was observed during her whole first year of life. Video records were made lasting one hour non-stop each and it took place mainly in the domestic environment. During the first six months there were weekly records and subsequently they were fortnightly. The recorded material resulted in a 40-hour collection from which a microgenetically transcript was made. Five of the episodes were selected in order to perform a microgenetic analysis for discussion of the results. Throughout these five selected episodes Marina\'s means of communication were exposed as well as the transformation of the ways of expressing herself, particularly those related to the looks, smiles and vocalizations. Attention was also drawn by the establishment and maintenance of Marina\'s communication with her caregivers in a context of interaction in which the proximity and/or body contact with the girl is emphasized as well as the face-to-face exchanges and the exclusive attention directed from the family members to the infant, not to mention the awareness of the relatives to eye-contact and verbal/vocal exchange situations. From the chaining and interleaving discussion of several elements it was possible to present different configurations concerning the transformation process - for example, characteristics of the human species and of the people interacting - along each episode and all of them together. Showing such elements was fundamental to delimit effectively Marina\'s communication transformation process. Finally, the necessity of other studies which analyses microgenetically the concreteness of the human communication transformation process is observed. (AU) | |