ABSTRACT
The process of social construction of an introspectively "visible" subjective sense of self involves the internalization of contingent and "marked" mirroring displays by the infant as second-order representations of her primary affective self states. Considering "marked" mirroring as a case of pedagogical communication referencing the infant's self states will also shed further explanatory light on the consequent increase in sensitivity to subjective self states and their contingent effects on the external social environment. The joint presence of cues of ostension and "marked" forms of emotion manifestation in the caregiver's affect-mirroring display will induce the referential interpretive attitude of the "pedagogical stance" in the infant. The cues of "markedness" correspond to this special form of saliently exaggerated, slowed down, schematic, and sometimes only partially executed version of the habitual procedural motor pattern. There are two types of pedagogical communicative cues produced by adults for which infants show specific receptivity: cues of "ostensive communication" and cues of "referential knowledge manifestation".
