title: Could we please lose the mapping metaphor, please?
abstract: Although Bloom gives more credit to social cognition (mind reading) than do most other theorists of word learning, he does not go far enough. He still relies fundamentally on a learning process of association (or mapping), neglecting the joint attentional and cultural learning skills from which linguistic communication emerges at one year of age.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany tomas@eva.mpg.de http://www.eva.mpg.de/psycho/
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tomasello