Toys and Communication

Part I. Toys and Communication. Preliminary Issues

1. Toys and Communication: An Introduction
Jeffrey Goldstein

2. The End of Play and the Fate of Digital Play Media: A Historical Perspective on the Marketing of Play Culture
Stephen Kline

3. Toys: Between Rhetoric of Education and Rhetoric of Fun
Gilles Brougère

4. A Toy Semiotics, Revisited
David Myers

Part II. Language Development

5. Age Differences in the Use of Toys as Communication Tools
Amanda Gummer

6. LMNOBeasts™: Using Typographically Inspired Toys to Aid Development of Language and Communication Skills in Early Childhood
Todd Maggio, Kerri Phillips, Christina Madix

Part III. Toys, Culture and Communication

7. Images of Toys in Spanish Art (15th–19th Centuries): Iconographic Languages
Oriol Vaz-Romero Trueba, Michel Manson

8. Communication in Moroccan Children’s Toys and Play
Jean-Pierre Rossie

9.
Dincs as Worldviews: Things that Communicate a Mind
Koumudi Patil

10. Holocaust War Games: Playing with Genocide
Suzanne Seriff

11. Working Class Children’s Toys in Times of War and Famine. Play, Work and the Agency of Children in Piraeus Neighborhoods During the German Occupation of Greece
Cleo Gougoulis

12. Can Toy Premiums Induce Healthy Eating?
Carla Ferreira, Luísa Agante

13. You Are What You Eat: Toying with the Process of Becoming
Mariah Wade

Part IV. Toy Design and Play Spaces

14. Work and Play in a Theme Park
Luísa Magalhães

15. Design for Rebellious Play
Lieselotte Leeuwen, Mathieu Gielen

16. Hong Kong PolyPlay: An Innovation Lab for Design, Play, and Education
Rémi Leclerc

Nyckelord: Cultural and Media Studies, Media and Communication, Communication Studies, Cultural Theory, Developmental Psychology, Infancy and Early Childhood Development, Early Childhood Education