Clotilde Pontecorvo

List of John Benjamins publications in which Clotilde Pontecorvo is involved.

Title

Writing Development: An interdisciplinary view

Edited by Clotilde Pontecorvo

This volume presents a selection of papers presented at a series of three workshops organized by the Network “Written Language and Literacy” as launched by the European Science Foundation. The main topics making up Writing Development are: (1) Writing and literacy acquisition: Links between speech… read more

[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 6] 1997. xxxii, 338 pp.

Articles

Pontecorvo, Clotilde and Francesco Arcidiacono 2016 The dialogic construction of justifications and arguments of a seven-year-old child within a ‘democratic’ family Language and Dialogue 6:2, pp. 306–328 | Article

The paper focuses on arguing and reasoning processes occurring at dinnertime family conversations. Our goal is to highlight the interplay between two sides of argumentative practices: the justification as social need to provide evidences for an assertion; the dialogic function of argumentation… read more

Pontecorvo, Clotilde 1995 Iconicity in Children’s First Written Texts Iconicity in Language, Simone, Raffaele (ed.), pp. 277–308 | Article

Pontecorvo, Clotilde 1994 Emergent literacy and education Functional Literacy: Theoretical issues and educational implications, Verhoeven, Ludo (ed.), pp. 333–348 | Article