Colwyn Trevarthen

List of John Benjamins publications for which Colwyn Trevarthen plays a role.

Frank, Bodo and Colwyn Trevarthen 2015 Epilogue: Emotion in language can overcome exclusion from meaningEmotion in Language: Theory – research – application, Lüdtke, Ulrike M. (ed.), pp. 445–452 | Article
Human beings, like other highly social animals, cooperate by signaling motives and feelings, sharing intentions and interests. Language extends this communication, giving symbolic significance to intricate sequences of expressive movement that specify changing awareness of the environment, propose… read more
What is the foundation of social meanings, the cultivation of motives and beliefs in a community of human minds? How does meaning and collaborative intentionality emerge in intimate human relationships of early childhood and how does it grow in society? This article begins with an account of the… read more
Trevarthen, Colwyn 2012 Epilogue: Natural sources of meaning in human sympathetic vitalityMoving Ourselves, Moving Others: Motion and emotion in intersubjectivity, consciousness and language, Foolen, Ad, Ulrike M. Lüdtke, Timothy P. Racine and Jordan Zlatev (eds.), pp. 451–484 | Article
“It is by natural signs chiefly that we give force and energy to language; and the less language has of them, it is the less expressive and persuasive. […] Artificial signs signify, but they do not express; they speak to the understanding, as algebraical characters may do, but the passions, the… read more
Trevarthen, Colwyn 2008 

Foreword. Shared minds and the science of fiction: Why theories will differ

The Shared Mind: Perspectives on intersubjectivity, Zlatev, Jordan, Timothy P. Racine, Chris Sinha and Esa Itkonen (eds.), pp. vii–xiii | Foreword
Schögler, Ben and Colwyn Trevarthen 2007 To sing and dance together: From infants to jazzOn Being Moved: From mirror neurons to empathy, Bråten, Stein (ed.), pp. 281–302 | Article
Trevarthen, Colwyn 1987 Sharing makes sense: intersubjectivity and the making of an infant's meaningLanguage Topics: Essays in honour of Michael Halliday, Steele, Ross and Terry Threadgold (eds.), pp. 177–200 | Article
Trevarthen, Colwyn 1987 Sharing makes sense: intersubjectivity and the making of an infant’s meaningLanguage Topics: Essays in honour of Michael Halliday, Steele, Ross and Terry Threadgold (eds.), pp. 177–200 | Article