Sylabus
Weekly Schedule
Week 1-February 22, 2010
Course Introduction content of the seminar, goals, expectations, requirements will be discussed research areas and key concepts will be introduced
Week 2-March 1, 2010
Setting up the Stage
Lillard, A. S. (1997). Other folks’ theories of mind and behavior. Psychological Science, 8, 268-274.
Astington, J. W., & Filippova, E. (2005). Language as the route into other minds. In B. F. Malle & S. D. Hodges (Eds.), Other minds: How humans bridge the divide between self and others (pp. 209-222). New York, NY: Guilford Publications, Inc.
Week 3-March 8, 2010
Language Socialization I
Ochs, E., & Schieffelin, B. B. (1984). Language acquisition and socialization: Three developmental stories and their implications. In R. A. Shweder & R. A. LeVine (eds.), Culture theory: Essays on Mind, Self, and Emotion. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 276-320.
Week 4-March 15, 2010
Language Socialization II
Ochs, E., & Schieffelin, B. (1995). The impact of language socialization on grammatical development. In P. Fletcher & B. MacWhinney (eds.), Handbook of child language. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, pp. 168-189.
Week 5-March 22, 2010
Conceptual Development I: Intro
Carpendale, J. I. M. & Lewis, C. (2004). Constructing an understanding of mind: The development of children’s social understanding within social interaction. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27, 79-151.
Week 6-March 29, 2010
Conceptual Development II: Culture and Discourse
Nelson, K. (2005). Language Pathways into the Community of Minds. In J. W. Astington & J. A. Baird (eds.), Why language matters for theory of mind. Oxford: Oxford UP, pp. 26-49.
Week 7-April 5, 2010
Conceptual Development III: Mind concepts, Emotions
Callaghan, T., Rochat, P., Lillard, A., Claux, M. L., Odden, H., Itakura, S., et al. (2005). Synchrony in the onset of mental-state reasoning: Evidence from five cultures. Psychological Science, 16, 378-384.
Tenenbaum, H. R., Visscher, P., Pons, F., & Harris, P. L. (2004). Emotional understanding in Quechua children from an agro-pastoralist village. International Journal of Behavioral Development 28, 472-478.
Week 8-April 12, 2010
Pragmatics I: Intro
Reading TBA
Week 9-April 19, 2010
Pragmatics II: Non-literal language
Filippova, E., & Astington, J. W. (2010). Children's understanding of social-cognitive and social-communicative aspects of discourse irony. Child Development, 81, 915-930.
Week 10-April 26, 2010
Pragmatics III: Language ideology, language change, language shift
Fader, A. (2006). Learning faith: Language socialization in a community of Hasidic Jews. Language in Society, 35, 205-229.
Week 11-May 3, 2010
Biology and Social Cognition I: Atypical development de Villiers, P. A. (2005). The role of language in theory-of-mind development: What deaf children tell us. In J.W. Astington & J. A. Baird (eds.), Why language matters for theory of mind. Oxford: Oxford UP, pp. 265-297.
Week 12-May 10, 2010
Biology and Social Cognition II: Evolutionary perspectives
Frith, C. D., & Frith, U. (2007). Social Cognition in Humans. Current Biology 17, 724-732.
Week 13-May 17, 2010
Course Wrap-up
Reading TBA
Note: The schedule is subject to change with a prior notice. Any such notice will be made in class well in advance.