Abstract

Joint attention involves the mutual engagement between two or more persons towards a relevant focus of interest. The main strands of research on children's joint attention come from developmental psychology, sociocultural theory, and linguistic anthropology. This chapter provides a background on studies of joint attention in developmental psychology. It focuses on different aspects of the interactional organization of joint attention in everyday life, demonstrating that joint attention is multimodal, multisensorial, and multiparty. The chapter presents the case of a Mayan ecology of attention during infancy. Linguistic anthropologists have scrutinized multiple facets of everyday joint attention in a variety of nonindustrial and postindustrial communities. The studies have covered interactional settings that include everyday conversation, apprenticeship and learning in family and community, infant socialization, toddlers and middle-aged peer groups, and everyday family life.

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