New Publication

[Quigley, Jean]

Dear INFO-CHILDES,

Announcing the publication of a new book:

THE GRAMMAR OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY: A DEVELOPMENTAL ACCOUNT  (2000)
Jean Quigley

Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
ISBN: 0-8058-3483-4
Price: $49.95
Discounted Price (online sales): $22.50  http://www.erlbaum.com/index.htm

An investigation of the social construction of selfhood and the psychology
of everyday life,  this is the first book to bring together four distinct
literatures - functional linguistics, child language, narrative
development, and discursive psychology. In a narrow sense, the book is
about the role of grammar in the construction of children's social
practices and in the construction of the self, but the broader implications
extend as far as the central role of language in all of human experience.
Topics discussed include morality, agency, responsibility and the
development of the self.  In addition to providing an innovative synthesis
of issues in human development and child language, the book also spotlights
the use of grammatical analysis as a method for psychological research.  It
deals in careful linguistic analyses, examining the role of grammatical
forms in constituting context which involves an examination of their
functions, which are then used to highlight fundamental aspects of
development. Written to be accessible both to linguists with little or no
background in psychology and to psychologists with no linguistics
background, the book will interest scholars and upper-division students in
these disciplines and related areas.

              CONTENTS: Preface. The Discursive Self. Modal Auxiliaries,
              Subjectivity, and the Self. The Study: A Developmental
Linguistic
              Investigation of Modal Auxiliaries in Children's
Autobiographical
              Accounts. PART I: Modal Grammar in the Construction of the
              Self. A Sense of Responsibility: Can. A Sense of Commitment:
              Will. PART II: The Grammar of Autobiographical Narrative. A
              Sense of Location. PART III: Constructing a Narrative Identity.
              Accounting for Oneself: The Discourse of Agency. Evaluating
              OneSelf: The Discourse Morality. Conclusion. Appendix.


Hope this is useful information to those interested in this area.

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Dr Jean Quigley		Tel:  353-1-608-2697
Dept of Psychology	Fax:  353-1-671-2006
Trinity College		email:  quigleyj at tcd.ie
Dublin 2, Ireland	http://www.tcd.ie/Psychology/Jean_Quigley/index.html