Young Children's Dyadic Pretend Play

Pretend play in early childhood arises in the context of social interaction and, as such, constitutes a form of discourse indigenous to the child's world. The present study is a first detailed investigation of thematic-ideational structure in young children's dyadic pretend play with special emphasis on major generative strategies involved in the realization of coherent play action sequences.Play was conceptualized as a story in a dramatic mode where two actors jointly generate or attempt to gen