Writing Development: An interdisciplinary view
Edited by Clotilde Pontecorvo
[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 6] 1997. xxxii, 338 pp.
Clotilde Pontecorvo
List of John Benjamins publications for which Clotilde Pontecorvo plays a role.
Title
Subjects Language acquisition | Writing and literacy
Articles
2016 The dialogic construction of justifications and arguments of a seven-year-old child within a ‘democratic’ family Language and Dialogue 6:2, pp. 306–328 | Article
The paper focuses on arguing and reasoning processes occurring at dinnertime family conversations. Our goal is to highlight the interplay between two sides of argumentative practices: the justification as social need to provide evidences for an assertion; the dialogic function of argumentation… read more
1995 Iconicity in Children’s First Written Texts Iconicity in Language, Simone, Raffaele (ed.), pp. 277–308 | Article
1994 Emergent literacy and education Functional Literacy: Theoretical issues and educational implications, Verhoeven, Ludo (ed.), pp. 333–348 | Article