YOUNG CHILDREN'S DYADIC PRETEND PLAY A COMMUNICATION ANALYSIS OF PLOT STRUCTURE AND PLOT GENERATIVE STRATEGIES -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Chapter 1. THE INVESTIGATION OF PROPOSITIONAL CONTENT IN PLAY: INITIAL RESEARCH FORMULATION -- Chapter 2. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK FOR ANALYSIS: PLAY CONTENT AS PLAY PLOT -- 1 From Play Content to Play Plot: A Framework For Analysis -- 2 Discourse as Story: A First Delineation -- 3 Text Considerations In Play: Playing As a Story In a Dramatic Mode -- Chapter 3. METHODOLOGY OF ANALYSIS -- 1 Data Collection And Transcription -- 2 Issues In Analytic Methodology: The Master Text -- Summarization and description -- Reliability of summarization -- Expansion -- Reliability of expansion -- 3 Presentation of Major Analytic Play Concepts -- Concepts relating to the creation of the play field -- Proxemics -- Connective strategies -- Frames and framing techniques -- Plot structures and themes -- Transition phase -- Chapter 4. MASTER TEXT I: ANALYSIS OF TEXT I -- 1 Introductory Comments To Master Text I -- 2 Master Text I -- 3 Concluding Comments to Master Text I -- Chapter 5. MASTER TEXT II: ANALYSIS OF TEXT II -- 1 Introductory Comments To Master Text II -- 2 Master Text II -- 3 Concluding Comments To Master Text II -- Chapter 6. COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF MASTER TEXTS I AND II -- 1 The Nature And Function Of Comparison -- 2 Structural And Strategic Correspondences In The Play Texts -- Overall structural similarities and differences -- Similarities And Differences in Thematic Core Structures -- Comparison Of Preludic Activities -- Transition Phases And Breaks -- Attentional Strategies -- Chapter 7. PLAY PLOT STRUCTURE AND PLOT GENERATIVE STRATEGIES: INTEGRATION OF RESULTS AND FURTHER CONSIDERATIONS -- 1 The Master Text Procedure And Its Relation to The Results.

2 The Findings: Review and Integration -- 3 Selected Issues in Play Plot Structure and Plot Generation -- Play plot structure: A dialectical affair -- Thematic Core Structures as reflective of childhood concerns -- Play plot: Repetition and variability -- The process of plot generation: The nature and function of preludes and transitions -- 4 Directions for Future Research -- REFERENCES -- Appendix A. Transcription of videotape data base: Play session with Victor and Aaron -- Appendix B. Transcription of videotape data base: Play session with Suzie and Stephanie.