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The Pragmatics of the Object represented both continuity and rupture with the Geneva School. Continuity because it is rooted in the axes of Geneva constructivism, in its epistemological and methodological aspects. Knowledge is not a copy of reality but a construction by an active subject who acts upon and transforms the environment. The source of knowledge is not found in the object but in the subject’s activity with the object. From this perspective, the analysis of processes is emphasized rather than just results. To investigate developmental processes, we opted for an observational and longitudinal methodology to approach the original and unforeseen behaviors of children in everyday contexts, such as home and early-years-schools. These observations allow us to study children as the agents they are, acting and seeking solutions creatively, and to articulate macro and microgenetic development. On the other hand, the rupture involved removing the subject and the object from the solitude in which the Geneva School had placed them. To do this, we established three central axes of the Pragmatics of the Object: (i) Everyday artifact objects are part of material culture. They are social and cannot be reduced to “physical reality.” (ii) Objects are used in everyday life with practical public goals. The types of uses that children perform develop dramatically during the first two years of life with increasing levels of semiotic complexity. (iii) Children appropriate the public meanings of objects through communication with others. Communication develops according to increasing levels of semiotic complexity [75]. Some consequences of this perspective involve reconsidering the permanence of the object from a functional perspective [83], distinguishing between object and use, questioning the concept of affordance, or including objects as part of communicative acts and semiotic analysis. This chapter showcases the initial works carried out under the umbrella of the PO and announces subsequent research presented in the various chapters comprising this volume.

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The Uses of Objects and Their Social Construction in Infancy

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    2025年

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  • Cintia Rodríguez

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The Pragmatics of the Object represented both continuity and rupture with the Geneva School. Continuity because it is rooted in the axes of Geneva constructivism, in its epistemological and methodological aspects. Knowledge is not a copy of reality but a construction by an active subject who acts upon and transforms the environment. The source of knowledge is not found in the object but in the subject’s activity with the object. From this perspective, the analysis of processes is emphasized rather than just results. To investigate developmental processes, we opted for an observational and longitudinal methodology to approach the original and unforeseen behaviors of children in everyday contexts, such as home and early-years-schools. These observations allow us to study children as the agents they are, acting and seeking solutions creatively, and to articulate macro and microgenetic development. On the other hand, the rupture involved removing the subject and the object from the solitude in which the Geneva School had placed them. To do this, we established three central axes of the Pragmatics of the Object: (i) Everyday artifact objects are part of material culture. They are social and cannot be reduced to “physical reality.” (ii) Objects are used in everyday life with practical public goals. The types of uses that children perform develop dramatically during the first two years of life with increasing levels of semiotic complexity. (iii) Children appropriate the public meanings of objects through communication with others. Communication develops according to increasing levels of semiotic complexity [75]. Some consequences of this perspective involve reconsidering the permanence of the object from a functional perspective [83], distinguishing between object and use, questioning the concept of affordance, or including objects as part of communicative acts and semiotic analysis. This chapter showcases the initial works carried out under the umbrella of the PO and announces subsequent research presented in the various chapters comprising this volume.