ABSTRACT
The present article focuses on the genesis of proto-oppositional conduct, defined as infantile actions interpreted as opposition to commands, desires and actions. The article assumes, as proposed by Leitão (2010______. Argumentação e cognição: desenvolvimento de condutas proto-argumentativas. (Projeto de Pesquisa em Psicologia Cognitiva) – Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, 2010.; LEITÃO; FERREIRA, 2006LEITÃO, S.; FERREIRA, A. P. M. Argumentação infantil: condutas opositivas e antecipação de oposição. In: MEIRA, L.; SPINILLO, A. G. (Org.). Psicologia cognitiva: cultura, desenvolvimento e aprendizagem. Recife: Ed. da UFPE, 2006. p.236-258.), that such conduct constitutes remote older verbal actions of contraposition and response to opposition, seen as central constituencies of the argumentation. Based on references which place the genesis of human action and cognition in the realm of relations that are dialogically constituted (BAKHTIN; VOLOCHINOV, 1986BAKHTIN, M.; VOLOCHINOV, V. N. Marxismo e filosofia da linguagem. Tradução de Michel Lahud e Yara Frateschi. 13.ed. São Paulo: Hucitec, 2009.; VYGOTSKY, 1980, 2012; WERTSCH, 1978WERTSCH, J. V. Adult-child interaction and the roots of metacognition. The Quarterly Newsletter of the Institute for Comparative Human Development, Philadelphia, n.1, p.15-18, 1978.), this article analyzes video-graphic records produced with two children, ages between the fourth week and six months of life, interacting with adults in a domestic context. Based on micro and macro-genetic analyses of these records (GRANOTT; PARZIALE, 2002GRANOTT, N.; PARZIALE, J. Microdevelopment: a process-oriented perspective for studying development and learning. In: GRANOTT, N.; PARZIALE, J. (Org.). Microdevelopment: transition processes in development and learning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. p.1-28.), three moments were identified in the development process of proto-oppositional conduct: attribution of oppositional sense to crying; construction of infantile actions such as ‘refusal’ and, finally, interpretation of the infantile action as complex contraposition. In this last one, which implicates a displacement of the discursive place attributed to the child (LEITÃO, 2012LEITÃO, S. Contribuições de Bakhtin e do círculo para os estudos em aquisição da linguagem. 2012. Trabalho apresentado no 2. Encontro sobre linguagem da criança; 1. Colóquio sobre alfabetização do núcleo de ensino de Araraquara com o título Sentido, corpo e discurso, Universidade Estadual Paulista, São Paulo, 2012.), not only is the child seen as opposing the initiated actions by an adult, but also as proposing new actions.
Protoargumentation; Child argumentation; Cognitive development
Source: Survey’s data.
Source: Survey’s data.