Katherine Nelson is Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Emerita, at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.

• Introduction: Monologues in the Crib Katherine Nelson Part I: Constructing a World 1. Monologue as Representation of Real-Life Experience Katherine Nelson 2. Monologue as Narrative Recreation of the World Jerome Bruner and Joan Lucariello 3. Monologue as Problem-Solving Narrative Carol Fleisher Feldman Part II: Constructing a Language 4. Monologue as Development of the Text-Forming Function of Language Elena Levy 5. Monologue as a Speech Genre Julie Gerhardt 6. Monologue as Reenvoicement of Dialogue John Dore Part III: Constructing a Self 7. Monologue, Dialogue, and Regulation Rita Watson 8. Monologue as the Linguistic Construction of Self in Time Katherine Nelson 9. Crib Monologues from a Psychoanalytic Perspective Daniel N. Stern Notes References Contributors Index

This book is intriguing for several reasons... In the present collection, full advantage has been taken of the richness of the source material through analyses carried out by researchers who have widely differing interests: cognitive, linguistic, social, psychoanalytic... I would recommend Narratives from the Crib to anyone interested in the study of early development in the related areas of language and cognition.