Socializing Infants toward a Cultural Understanding of Expressing Negative Affect: A Bakhtinian Informed Discursive Psychology Approach

Autor/in	Demuth, Carolin
Titel	Socializing Infants toward a Cultural Understanding of Expressing Negative Affect: A Bakhtinian Informed Discursive Psychology Approach
Quelle	In: Mind, Culture, and Activity, 20 (2013) 1, S.39-61 (23 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1074-9039
DOI	10.1080/10749039.2012.719992
Schlagwörter	Middle Class; Cultural Differences; Cross Cultural Studies; Infants; Caregivers; Mothers; Socialization; Emotional Response; Sociocultural Patterns; Parent Child Relationship; Foreign Countries; Discourse Analysis; Cultural Context; Social Environment; Agricultural Occupations; Cameroon; Germany + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mittelschicht; Kultureller Unterschied; Cultural comparison; Kulturvergleich; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Caregiver; Carer; Betreuungsperson; Pfleger; Mother; Mutter; Socialisation; Sozialisation; Emotionales Verhalten; Soziokulturelle Theorie; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Ausland; Diskursanalyse; Soziales Umfeld; Agriculture; Occupation; Landwirtschaft; Beruf; Landwirtschaftlicher Beruf; Kamerun; Deutschland
Abstract	This article addresses the socialization of emotion expression in infancy. It argues that in order to adequately understand emotion development we need to consider the appraisal of emotion expression through caregivers in mundane, everyday interactions. Drawing on sociocultural and Bakhtinian theorizing, it claims that caregivers' appraisals of infants' emotion expression are dialogically intertwined with broader speech genres or "communicative genres" of a community and the emotional-volitional tone and normative orientations embedded in them. It aims to investigate how communicative genres become visible in early caregiver-infant interactions. In a comparative study with 20 farming Cameroonian Nso mothers from Kikaikelaki and 20 German middle-class mothers from Muenster and their 3-month-old infants, we investigated discursive practices used by the mothers in reaction to the infants' expression of negative affect. We found distinct patterns of coconstructing the interaction that point to different normative orientations and communicative genres that can be considered to be specific to the two sociocultural contexts. These communicative genres were found to be in line with broader cultural ethnotheories on good child care in these two communities found in previous studies and by other researchers. (Contains 2 tables and 3 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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