Linguistic Communication and Social Understanding

The Role of Language Games in Children's Understanding of Mental States: A Training Study

“…These findings are echoed by studies that used explicitly conversational approaches to improve children's false-belief understanding (Guajardo & Watson, 2002;Lohmann, Tomasello, & Meyer, 2005).…”

Getting Vygotskian about theory of mind: Mediation, dialogue, and the development of social understanding

“…These serve to draw children's attention to the fact that adult interlocutors' perspectives on the world do not necessarily coincide with their own. Lohmann, Tomasello, and Meyer (2005) suggest that the form of discourse that is most powerful in conveying these lessons is reflective discourse which involves adult and child commenting on ideas previously expressed in the exchange. In terms of the DT model, all of these forms of perspective-shifting discourse exemplify the simultaneous multiplicity of perspectives that defines dialogue.…”

“…For example, Carpendale and Lewis (2004;2006) claim an important role for language in the construction of conversations in which children develop -the ability to talk about the psychological world‖ (2006, p. 239), without aligning themselves to a Vygotskian view of mediation (Fernyhough, 2004a). Similarly, Lohmann et al's (2005) discourse-based account envisages no role for semiotic mediation. On their account, language is seen as a source of information about the social world, but it is not suggested that it plays any constitutive role in reasoning about social processes.…”

Understanding Contextual and Social Meaning in Typically Developing Finnish-Speaking Four- To Eight-Year-Old Children

“…Angeleri & Airenti, 2014;Bosco & Gabbatore, 2017;Loukusa, Leinonen, & Ryder, 2007), which has led to the possibility to develop new research-based methods for assessing the development of such capabilities in typically developing (TD) children. The adopted approach, involving a close integration of social and pragmatic comprehension skills in structured assessment, is based on previous studies that suggest a strong relationship between ToM and communicative abilities (Lohmann, Tomasello, & Meyer, 2005;Miller, 2006;Nelson, 2005; see also Hyter, 2017;Perkins, 2011).…”