Rodríguez Cintia, Palacios Pedro
Departamento de Psicología Evolutiva, Facultad de Formación de Profesorado y Educación, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain.
Infant Behav Dev. 2007 May;30(2):180-94. doi: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2007.02.010. Epub 2007 Mar 19.
One of the most fascinating phenomena in early development is that babies not only understand signs others direct to them and later use them to communicate with others, but they also come to direct the same signs towards themselves in a private way. Private gestures become "tools of thought". There is a considerable literature about private language, but almost nothing about private gestures. Private gestures pose an intriguing communicative puzzle: they are communicative, but with the self. In this paper we study two types of private gestures (signs) before language: (1) private ostensive gestures and (2) private pointing gestures. We show in a case study of one child between 12 and 18 months of age that both are used with a self-reflexive function, as a way of "thinking" what to do, in order to solve a problem in the conventional use of an object. The private gestures become self-reflexive signs.
早期发育过程中最引人入胜的现象之一是，婴儿不仅能理解他人指向他们的手势，并在之后用这些手势与他人交流，而且他们还会开始以一种私密的方式将同样的手势指向自己。私密手势成为了“思维工具”。关于私密语言有大量的文献，但关于私密手势的却几乎没有。私密手势构成了一个有趣的交流谜题：它们具有交流性，但却是与自己交流。在本文中，我们研究了语言出现之前的两种私密手势（信号）：（1）私密明示手势和（2）私密指示手势。我们通过对一名12至18个月大儿童的案例研究表明，这两种手势都具有自我反思功能，是一种“思考”该做什么的方式，以便解决在常规使用物体时遇到的问题。这些私密手势变成了自我反思信号。
