The atrical scribblings in babies' gestures: a Bakhtinian study

Abstract

This article presents some bakthinian ideas about the constitution of language, especially the gesture, coupled with the communicative experiences that babies can experience in educational spaces, with an emphasis on theatrical games. Two episodes are presented in which the babies express, through the gestures, some of the innate possibilities of the theatrical language present in the infantile context, either through the discoveries realized from the movement of the own body and the effects that this produces in contact with the light, either through the manipulation of materials and / or toys in a make-believe play. They are playful moments, of games and discoveries that allow the development of theatrical scrawl, that is, the first theatrical expressions of the babies.