The dynamics of interactional and intentional pattern formation in children's language socialization

The paradigm of Language Socialization draws upon the theoretical and analytical concepts used in linguistic anthropology, poststructuralist approaches to the study of discourse and practice, and the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl. This blending of different philosophical positions leaves Language Socialization with an incoherent concept of subjectivity. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate, first, how a coherent concept may be reached. The article argues for a phenomenological approach to the concept of habitus that brings the intentionality of consciousness back into focus as the true object of socialization processes. Second, the article demonstrates how an integrational approach to language, invested in the first-person perspective, can further an understanding of socialization as a dynamics of interactional and intentional pattern formation in children's development.