{"pk":7056,"title":"Joint Attention in a Father-Child-Mother Triad: A Chinese-American Case Study","subtitle":null,"abstract":"This pcq)er presents an exploratory study of joint attention in a father-childmother triad in a Chinese-American family. The study examines how the parents of a two-year-old child elicit and sustain the attention of the child during mundane activities such as playing an educational game and telling a story. In the activities, triadic interactions are fostered by the following factors: (1) the arrangement of artifacts and spaces for participant interactions; (2) the blending of artifacts of western culture with Chinese culture; (3) the complementary roles of the parents with respect to the input they provide to the child; (4) the use of affective morphology to convey intersubjectivity and shared knowledge; and (5) the use of nonvocal linguistic cues such as gestures and eye gaze. These factors interactively contribute to joint attention, which constitutes an essential part of a child's language development, social cognition, and cultural learning.","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[{"word":"Applied Linguistics"}],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/52d0p19f","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Kylie","middle_name":"","last_name":"Hsu","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Los Angeles","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2011-02-05T08:00:00Z","date_accepted":"2011-02-05T08:00:00Z","date_published":"1996-06-30T07:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/ial/article/7056/galley/4176/download/"}]}