Laura Sterponi
Biographic Data
| ID | 3674830 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Sterponi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Sterponi |
| SIGNATURE | STERPONI L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Companions in immigrant oncology visits: Uncovering social dynamics through the lens of Goffman's footing and Conversation Analysis
This paper examines the role of companions in healthcare encounters, focusing on a previously unexamined context: the oncology visit with immigrant patients. By employing a methodological approach that combines elements of Goffman's footing and Conversation Analysis, this study discerns the social dynamics and communicative patterns among doctors, patients, and companions. Our focus on the companion yields an intricate picture of their multifacet…
Literacy
Literacy has been in the purview of anthropological inquiry since the late 19th century. In fact, while linguistics repudiated written language as derivative and secondary (Saussure), it has been anthropology that has chiefly contributed to the establishment of literacy as a domain worthy of investigation. Whether through historical analysis or ethnographic methods, anthropologists have consistently attempted to elucidate literacy’s effects on hu…
“There is no there there”: Space deictics, verb tense, and nostalgia at a family literacy class
Language in the Senses: On Autistic Engagement with Words
Structuring times and activities in the oncology visit
Language Socialization and Autism
What discourse analytic approaches contribute to the study of language and autism
In this article, we offer a framework for conceptualizing the contribution of discourse analytic approaches to the study of the verbal communication of children with autism, with an emphasis on conversation analysis. We argue that insights from these approaches serve to complexify traditional deficit interpretations of prototypical features of autistic language, such as pronoun atypicality, pragmatic difficulties, and echolalia. Our framework is …
Rethinking echolalia: Repetition as interactional resource in the communication of a child with autism
Echolalia is a pervasive phenomenon in verbal children with autism, traditionally conceived of as an automatic behavior with no communicative function. However, recently it has been shown that echoes may serve interactional goals. This article, which presents a case study of a six-year-old child with autism, examines how social interaction organizes autism echolalia and how repetitive speech responds to discernible interactional trajectories. Usi…
Dans les traces de Hymes et au-delà: Les Études De La Socialisation Langagière
Cet article met en relief le rôle des travaux de Dell Hymes dans l'élaboration du paradigme de la socialisation langagière et l'influence de concepts clés de son œuvre sur ce courant de recherche, dans lequel ces concepts ont été investis et ré-élaborés. Ainsi, en premier lieu, cette contribution examine la place primordiale accordée au contexte social et culturel par Hymes, et, à sa suite, par les chercheur.e.s sur la socialisation langagière, q…
How to Go On: Intersubjectivity and Progressivity in the Communication of a Child with Autism
Through the lens of a case study of the spontaneous verbal interaction of a five-year-and-ten-month-old child with autism, this article offers a reflection on the psychological and epistemological underpinnings of human communication. In particular, in the analysis of verbal exchanges between a child with autism and his caregivers, we discuss formulaic talk and verbal play and the relation of these with sequential progressivity, expressions of pe…
Accountability in Family Discourse: Socialization into norms and standards and negotiation of responsibility in Italian dinner conversations
This article explores morality as situated activity and approaches the discursive practice of accountability in Italian family dinner conversations as an avenue for understanding the construction of moral behaviour in everyday interpersonal interaction. The article focuses in particular on vicarious accounts, namely accounts, or explanations, provided by parents for a child's misbehaviour. It examines the multiple socializing functions that vicar…
Reading and meditation in the Middle Ages: Lectio divina and books of hours
This article offers a historical perspective on reading as a situated activity through an examination of the medieval devotional practice of reading the book of hours. My historical investigation opens with an analysis of key pedagogical treatises and religious essays popular in the Middle Ages, which provided instruction on reading, its sensori-motor enactment, its interpretive procedures, and its ultimate goal. These texts, which portray readin…
Limitations and transformations of habitus in Child-Directed Communication
This article offers an alternative approach to paradigms that cast culture solely as a nurturing influence on children's language development. It proposes a dimensional model of Child-Directed Communication (CDC) to delineate ways in which a community's habitus may impede the communicative potential of children with neuro-developmental conditions such as severe autism. It argues that certain features of Euro-American CDC are illadapted for autist…
Construction of Rules, Accountability and Moral Identity by High-Functioning Children with Autism
This article explores how high-functioning children with autism navigate in the social world, specifically how they orient in the realm of norms and standards. In particular, this investigation focuses on rule violations episodes and sheds light on how these children account for their (mis)conduct and position themselves in the moral framework. This analysis shows that high-functioning children with autism can actively engage in discourse about n…
Account episodes in family discourse: The Making of Morality in Everyday Interaction
This article investigates account episodes in Italian family dinner conversations and illustrates how sequential patterns and participation are organized in terms of preferences indexical of moral ideology and moral order. Accounts have been mostly examined as speech acts abstracted from embedding sequential environment; this article shows that different design features of the priming move in account episodes retrospectively define different aspe…
Contents Vol. 44, 2001
Mutual Apprentices: The Making of Parenthood and Childhood in Family Dinner Conversations
Starting from a view of socialization as a bidirectional process, the paper contributes to the field of language socialization in detailing how conversational interaction provides tools for parents and children to collaboratively construe a sense of moral meaning and social order. The paper illustrates both the agentive participation of Italian children in dialogue on normative behavior and ways that their discursive contributions shape the struc…
Are there just two people in a dyad? Dyadic configurations in multiparty family conversations
Dyadic interaction does not necessarily imply that just two people are present. It is often possible to single out episodes of dyadic interaction in multiparty contexts that we analyse, such as family dinner table conversation. Within such a speech event, multiparty participation framework (variously organized) is the default conversational structure. Consequently, a groundwork(Goffman, 1964) is required for participants to gain space and exclusi…
Limitations and transformations of habitus in Child-Directed Communication
This article offers an alternative approach to paradigms that cast culture solely as a nurturing influence on children's language development. It proposes a dimensional model of Child-Directed Communication (CDC) to delineate ways in which a community's habitus may impede the communicative potential of children with neuro-developmental conditions such as severe autism. It argues that certain features of Euro-American CDC are illadapted for autist…
Accountability in Family Discourse: Socialization into norms and standards and negotiation of responsibility in Italian dinner conversations
This article explores morality as situated activity and approaches the discursive practice of accountability in Italian family dinner conversations as an avenue for understanding the construction of moral behaviour in everyday interpersonal interaction. The article focuses in particular on vicarious accounts, namely accounts, or explanations, provided by parents for a child's misbehaviour. It examines the multiple socializing functions that vicar…
How to Go On: Intersubjectivity and Progressivity in the Communication of a Child with Autism
Through the lens of a case study of the spontaneous verbal interaction of a five-year-and-ten-month-old child with autism, this article offers a reflection on the psychological and epistemological underpinnings of human communication. In particular, in the analysis of verbal exchanges between a child with autism and his caregivers, we discuss formulaic talk and verbal play and the relation of these with sequential progressivity, expressions of pe…
Structuring times and activities in the oncology visit
Dans les traces de Hymes et au-delà: Les Études De La Socialisation Langagière
Cet article met en relief le rôle des travaux de Dell Hymes dans l'élaboration du paradigme de la socialisation langagière et l'influence de concepts clés de son œuvre sur ce courant de recherche, dans lequel ces concepts ont été investis et ré-élaborés. Ainsi, en premier lieu, cette contribution examine la place primordiale accordée au contexte social et culturel par Hymes, et, à sa suite, par les chercheur.e.s sur la socialisation langagière, q…
Are there just two people in a dyad? Dyadic configurations in multiparty family conversations
Dyadic interaction does not necessarily imply that just two people are present. It is often possible to single out episodes of dyadic interaction in multiparty contexts that we analyse, such as family dinner table conversation. Within such a speech event, multiparty participation framework (variously organized) is the default conversational structure. Consequently, a groundwork(Goffman, 1964) is required for participants to gain space and exclusi…
Contents Vol. 44, 2001
Mutual Apprentices: The Making of Parenthood and Childhood in Family Dinner Conversations
Starting from a view of socialization as a bidirectional process, the paper contributes to the field of language socialization in detailing how conversational interaction provides tools for parents and children to collaboratively construe a sense of moral meaning and social order. The paper illustrates both the agentive participation of Italian children in dialogue on normative behavior and ways that their discursive contributions shape the struc…
Account episodes in family discourse: The Making of Morality in Everyday Interaction
This article investigates account episodes in Italian family dinner conversations and illustrates how sequential patterns and participation are organized in terms of preferences indexical of moral ideology and moral order. Accounts have been mostly examined as speech acts abstracted from embedding sequential environment; this article shows that different design features of the priming move in account episodes retrospectively define different aspe…
Construction of Rules, Accountability and Moral Identity by High-Functioning Children with Autism
This article explores how high-functioning children with autism navigate in the social world, specifically how they orient in the realm of norms and standards. In particular, this investigation focuses on rule violations episodes and sheds light on how these children account for their (mis)conduct and position themselves in the moral framework. This analysis shows that high-functioning children with autism can actively engage in discourse about n…
Limitations and transformations of habitus in Child-Directed Communication
This article offers an alternative approach to paradigms that cast culture solely as a nurturing influence on children's language development. It proposes a dimensional model of Child-Directed Communication (CDC) to delineate ways in which a community's habitus may impede the communicative potential of children with neuro-developmental conditions such as severe autism. It argues that certain features of Euro-American CDC are illadapted for autist…
Reading and meditation in the Middle Ages: Lectio divina and books of hours
This article offers a historical perspective on reading as a situated activity through an examination of the medieval devotional practice of reading the book of hours. My historical investigation opens with an analysis of key pedagogical treatises and religious essays popular in the Middle Ages, which provided instruction on reading, its sensori-motor enactment, its interpretive procedures, and its ultimate goal. These texts, which portray readin…
Accountability in Family Discourse: Socialization into norms and standards and negotiation of responsibility in Italian dinner conversations
This article explores morality as situated activity and approaches the discursive practice of accountability in Italian family dinner conversations as an avenue for understanding the construction of moral behaviour in everyday interpersonal interaction. The article focuses in particular on vicarious accounts, namely accounts, or explanations, provided by parents for a child's misbehaviour. It examines the multiple socializing functions that vicar…
How to Go On: Intersubjectivity and Progressivity in the Communication of a Child with Autism
Through the lens of a case study of the spontaneous verbal interaction of a five-year-and-ten-month-old child with autism, this article offers a reflection on the psychological and epistemological underpinnings of human communication. In particular, in the analysis of verbal exchanges between a child with autism and his caregivers, we discuss formulaic talk and verbal play and the relation of these with sequential progressivity, expressions of pe…
Dans les traces de Hymes et au-delà: Les Études De La Socialisation Langagière
Cet article met en relief le rôle des travaux de Dell Hymes dans l'élaboration du paradigme de la socialisation langagière et l'influence de concepts clés de son œuvre sur ce courant de recherche, dans lequel ces concepts ont été investis et ré-élaborés. Ainsi, en premier lieu, cette contribution examine la place primordiale accordée au contexte social et culturel par Hymes, et, à sa suite, par les chercheur.e.s sur la socialisation langagière, q…
Rethinking echolalia: Repetition as interactional resource in the communication of a child with autism
Echolalia is a pervasive phenomenon in verbal children with autism, traditionally conceived of as an automatic behavior with no communicative function. However, recently it has been shown that echoes may serve interactional goals. This article, which presents a case study of a six-year-old child with autism, examines how social interaction organizes autism echolalia and how repetitive speech responds to discernible interactional trajectories. Usi…
Language Socialization and Autism
What discourse analytic approaches contribute to the study of language and autism
In this article, we offer a framework for conceptualizing the contribution of discourse analytic approaches to the study of the verbal communication of children with autism, with an emphasis on conversation analysis. We argue that insights from these approaches serve to complexify traditional deficit interpretations of prototypical features of autistic language, such as pronoun atypicality, pragmatic difficulties, and echolalia. Our framework is …
Language in the Senses: On Autistic Engagement with Words
Structuring times and activities in the oncology visit
“There is no there there”: Space deictics, verb tense, and nostalgia at a family literacy class
Literacy
Literacy has been in the purview of anthropological inquiry since the late 19th century. In fact, while linguistics repudiated written language as derivative and secondary (Saussure), it has been anthropology that has chiefly contributed to the establishment of literacy as a domain worthy of investigation. Whether through historical analysis or ethnographic methods, anthropologists have consistently attempted to elucidate literacy’s effects on hu…
Companions in immigrant oncology visits: Uncovering social dynamics through the lens of Goffman's footing and Conversation Analysis
This paper examines the role of companions in healthcare encounters, focusing on a previously unexamined context: the oncology visit with immigrant patients. By employing a methodological approach that combines elements of Goffman's footing and Conversation Analysis, this study discerns the social dynamics and communicative patterns among doctors, patients, and companions. Our focus on the companion yields an intricate picture of their multifacet…
Psychology (15 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Developmental psychology (9 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (9 works) · Autism (7 works) · Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (7 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Communication (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works)