The general theme addressed in this volume concerns how enactments of cultural understandings in social interactions form the fabric of individual experience and the specificities of individual development.

Acknowledgments List of Contributors Foreword Introduction: Communication, Meaning and Development: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Part I. The Organization of Communication: Intersubjectivity and Alterity in Human Communication Emotion Within Situated Activity Language and Communication--What Develops? Determining the Role of Language Practices for a Theory of Development Part II. The Origins of Communication: Preverbal Communication: Emergence of Representative Symbols Infant into Conversant: Language and Nonlanguage Processes in Developing Early Communication Words Don't Tell All: Some Thoughts On Early Communication Development Verbal and Nonverbal Contributions to Early Representation: Evidence from African American Toddlers Part III. The Emergence of Self in Communication: Groundwork for a Holistic View of the Ontogenesis of Representation Language and the Construction of Self Adolescents' Public Discussion and Collective Identity Author Index Subject Index