Story-telling,Dramatic Role Play and Displaced Speech in Play with Dolls

Abstract

Playing with a dolls' house and dolls is a kind of game following certain rules where language is used in certain specific ways, i.e, you set the scene, plan a story and then act out a play, now acting as a story-teller, now playing the parts of the dolls, lending them your voice. This complicated linguistic task is not mastered by a child until somewhere between 3 and 4 years of age at the very earliest.