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 | Laura Sterponi Assistant Professor Language and Literacy, Society and Culture
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Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, Applied Linguistics
Ph.D., University of Rome "La Sapienza", Psychology
Books
Sterponi, L. (guest editor) (2008). The spirit of reading: Practices of reading sacred texts. Special Issue of Text & Talk, 28(5).
Fasulo, A. & Sterponi, L. (eds.) (2006). Linguaggio e cultura. L'acquisizione della competenza comunicativa. (Language and culture. The acquisition of conversational competence). Italian translation of a compilation of essays by Elinor Ochs. Roma: Carocci Editore.
Articles (Refereed Journals, Proceeding)
Sterponi, L. & Fasulo, A. (in press). How to go on: Intersubjectivity and progressivity in the communication of a child with autism. Ethos.
Sterponi, L. (2009). Accountability in family discourse: Socialization into norms and standards and negotiation of responsibility in Italian dinner conversations. Childhood, 16(4), 441-459.
Sterponi, L. (2008). Introduction. In L. Sterponi (guest editor), The spirit of reading: Practices of reading sacred texts. Special Issue of Text & Talk, 28(5), 555-559.
Sterponi, L. (2008). Reading and meditation in the Middle Ages: Lectio divina and books of hours. In L. Sterponi (guest editor), The spirit of reading: Practices of reading sacred texts. Special Issue of Text & Talk, 28(5), 667-689.
Sterponi, L. (2007). Reading as involvement with text: Insights from a study of high-functioning children with autism. Rivista di Psicolinguistica Applicata, VII, 3, 87-114.
Sterponi, L. (2007). Clandestine interactional reading: Intertextuality and double-voicing under the desk. Linguistics & Education, 18(1), 1-23.
Ochs, E., Solomon, O. & Sterponi, L. (2005). Limitations and transformations of habitus in child-directed communication. Discourse Studies, 7(4-5), 547-583.
Sterponi, L. (2004). Construction of rules, accountability and moral identity by high-functioning children with autism. Discourse Studies, 6(2), Special Issue: Discourse and Autism. E. Ochs & O. Solomon (eds.), 207-228.
Sterponi, L. (2003). Account episodes in family discourse: The making of morality in everyday interaction. Discourse Studies, 5(1), 79-100.
Sterponi, L. & Pontecorvo, C. (2003). Morale situata: Costruzione discorsiva delle norme e del posizionamento morale attraverso l'attività del "render conto". (Situated morality: Accountability and the discursive construction of norms and moral positioning). Rivista di Psicolinguistica Applicata, III, 1, 137-156.
Sterponi, L. (2002). Exploring children's spontaneous accomplishments of reading activity. In J.E. Alatis, H.E. Hamilton & A. Tan (eds.), Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 2000. Linguistics, Language, and the Professions: Education, Journalism, Law, Medicine, and Technology. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press. Pp. 141-161.
Santagata, R & Sterponi, L. (2001). Aspetti culturali del discorso a scuola: uno studio delle pratiche educative in classi e famiglie italiane e statunitensi. (Cultural aspects of school discourse: An investigation of educative practices in Italian and U.S. classrooms and families). Rassegna di Psicologia, XVIII, 3, 41-54.
Pontecorvo, C., Fasulo, A. & Sterponi, L. (2001). Mutual apprentices: The making of parenthood and childhood in family dinner Conversations. Human Development, 44, 340-361.
Sterponi, L. & Santagata, R. (2000). Mistakes in the classroom and at the dinner table: A comparison between socialization practices in Italy and United States. Crossroads of Language, Interaction and Culture, 3, 57-72.
Pontecorvo, C., Pirchio, S. & Sterponi, L. (2000). Are there just two people in a dyad? Dyadic configurations in multiparty family conversations. Rivista svizzera di scienze dell÷educazione, 3, 535-556.
Sterponi, L. (2000). Lo sviluppo discorsivo dell'identità. Note sulle modalità di riferimento interpersonale nelle conversazioni familiari a tavola (The discursive development of identity. Remarks on interpersonal references in family dinner conversations). Studi Italiani di Linguistica Teorica ed Applicata. XXIX, 3, 525-542.
Pontecorvo, C., Fasulo, A. & Sterponi, L. (1998). L'apprendistato reciproco nell'interazione familiare (The mutual apprenticeship in family interaction). Ikon, 36, 107-130.
Bonaiuto, M. & Sterponi, L. (1997). Attribuzione di intenzionalità retorica nell'interazione adulti-bambini (The attribution of rhetorical intentionality in adult-child interactions). Rassegna di Psicologia, Vol. XIV, n. 1, 107-137.
Sterponi, L. & Pontecorvo, C. (1996). Discourse at family dinner: how children are socialized through arguing. In D. Brixhe (Ed.), "Construction de savoirs". Numéro thématique de Interaction et cognitions, n. 2, Juin, 329-366.
Sterponi, L. & Pontecorvo, C. (1996). Il farsi e il disfarsi dell'argomento di discorso nelle conversazioni familiari a tavola (The making and unmaking of discourse topic in family dinner conversations). Rassegna di Psicologia, Vol. XIII, n. 3, 39-68.
Book Chapters
Sterponi, L. (in press). Learning communicative competence. In D.F. Lancy, J. Bock, & S. Gaskins (eds.), Anthropological perspectives on learning in childhood. New York: Rowan & Littlefield. Pp. 235-259.
Sterponi, L. (in press). Vicarious accounts: Morality and responsibility in Italian family dinner conversations. In J. Cromdal and M. Tholander (eds.), Children, morality and interaction. Nova Science: Hauppague, N.Y.
Pontecorvo, C. & Sterponi, L. (2008). Explication et justification dans les séquences de rendre compte (accountability): moralité et raisonnement dans les discours familiaux (Explanation and justification in account sequences: morality and reasoning in family discourse). In C. Hudelot, A. Salazar Ovig & E. Veneziano (eds.), L'explication. Enjeux cognitifs et interactionnels. Louvain: Peeters Editions. Pp. 245-254.
Sterponi, L. (2007). Voci sussurrate sottobanco: habitus e agentività nelle pratiche di lettura (Whispered voices under the desk: habitus and agency in reading practices). In A. Donzelli & A. Fasulo (a cura di), Agentività nell'interazione umana. Roma: Carocci. Pp. 237-262.
Sterponi, L. & Fasulo, A. (2006). Introduzione. In A. Fasulo & L. Sterponi (eds.), Linguaggio e cultura. L'acquisizione della competenza comunicativa. (Language and culture. The acquisition of conversational competence). Italian translation of a compilation of essays by Elinor Ochs. Roma: Carocci Editore. Pp. 13-24.
Ochs, E. & Sterponi, L. (2003). Analisi delle narrazioni (Narrative analysis). In G. Mantovani and A. Spagnolli (eds.), Metodi qualitativi in psicologia. Bologna: Il Mulino. Pp. 131-158.
Pontecorvo, C., & Sterponi, L. (2002). Learning to argue and reason through discourse in educational settings. In G. Wells and G. Claxton (Eds.), Learning for life in the 21th century: sociocultural perspectives on the future of education. Oxford, UK: Blackwell. Pp. 127-140.
Pirchio, S., Pontecorvo, C. & Sterponi, L. (2002). "Dialogare" nelle conversazioni in famiglia. In C. Bazzanella (ed.), Le forme del dialogo. Milano: Guerini e Associati. Pp. 47-57.
Amendola, S. e Sterponi, L. (1996). Strategie discorsive e forme linguistiche nella socializzazione a tavola (Discursive strategies and linguistic forms in dinner table socialization). In C. Gallo Barbisio (eds.), Trasformazioni e narrazioni. Torino: Editrice Tirrenia Stampatori.
Areas of Specialization / Interests
Language Socialization and Development
Literacy
Reading Development
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