Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part one: introduction
  • Representing the social world in symbolic play: reality and fantasy/Inge Bretherton
  • Part two: cooperative symbolic play
  • Playing with scripts/Katherine Nelson and Susan Seidman
  • Coordination of meaning in the creation of a shared make-believe reality/Holly Giffin
  • Mother-baby role play: its origins in social support/Peggy Miller and Catherine Garvey
  • I a daddy: 2-year-olds' collaboration in joint pretend with sibling and with mother/Judy Dunn and Naomi Dale
  • Shared pretend: sociodramatic play at 3 years of age/Susan K. Stockinger Forys and Lorraine McCune-Nicolich
  • Part three: symbolic play with toys
  • Agency and experience: actions and states in play narratives/Dennis Palmer Wolf, Jayne Rygh, and Jennifer Altshuler
  • Waiting for the birth of a sibling: verbal fantasies of a 2-year-old-boy/Virginia Volterra
  • Developmental trends for action and speech in pretend play/Larry Fenson
  • Effect of contextual variation on symbolic play: development from 20 to 28 months/Inge Bretherton, Barbara O'Connell, Cecilia Shore, and Elizabeth Bates
  • Conceptual organization in the play of preschool children: effects of meaning, context, and mother-child interaction/Maria Kreye
  • Toddlers' play, alone and with mother: role of maternal guidance/Barbara O'Connell and Inge Bretherton