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The events in this chapter show young children communicating, while playing together, using verbal language emotionally, creatively, imaginatively and subversively, co-constructing verbally rich interpersonal fields. Words mediate their intersubjectivity and add complexity to the communication that emerges and is co-created in the spaces between, and within, children relating and playing. The ways in which words can empower children, as serious and playful communicators, is a specific focus of this chapter. Verbal language featured strongly in observations of children communicating playfully in the wider study. Word play, and the complexities of verbal language in playful communication are, like intra and intersubjectivity, implicitly recurrent themes throughout the events in this book.
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Alcock, S.J. (2016). Words Connecting Children Playfully Together. In: Young Children Playing. International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development, vol 12. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1207-5_4
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