1. Introduction: Communication, Meaning and Development: Interdisciplinary Perspectives / Nancy Budwig, James V. Wertsch and Ina C. Uzgiris
2. Intersubjectivity and Alterity in Human Communication / James V. Wertsch
3. Emotion Within Situated Activity / Marjorie Harness Goodwin and Charles Goodwin
4. Language and Communication - What Develops? Determining the Role of Language Practices for a Theory of Development / Michael Bamberg
5. Preverbal Communication: Emergence of Representative Symbols / Hanus Papousek, Mechthild Papousek and Gunhild Kestermann
6. Infant into Conversant: Language and Nonlanguage Processes in Developing Early Communication / Marc H. Bornstein
7. Words Don't Tell All: Some Thoughts On Early Communication Development / Ina C. Uzgiris
8. Verbal and Nonverbal Contributions to Early Representation: Evidence from African American Toddlers / Linda L. Sperry and Douglas E. Sperry
9. Groundwork for a Holistic View of the Ontogenesis of Representation / Irving E. Sigel and Bruce Dorval
10. Language and the Construction of Self / Nancy Budwig
11. Adolescents' Public Discussion and Collective Identity / James Youniss and Miranda Yates.
