The Language of Early Childhood Volume 4

Sixteen papers cover infancy and protolanguage, transition from child tongue to mother tongue and early language and learning. Halliday studied the language of one child, Nigel, when he was 9-18 months old. The complete 'Nigel Transcripts' are included as a CD.

Preface

vii

Acknowledgements

xi

PART ONE: INFANCY AND PROTOLANGUAGE

Editor's Introduction

3

(152)

1 Representing the Child as a Semiotic Being (One Who Means) (1998)

6

(22)

2 Learning How to Mean (1975)

28

(32)

3 Early Language Learning: A Sociolinguistic Approach (1976)

60

(30)

4 A Sociosemiotic Perspective on Language Development (1974)

90

(23)

5 Meaning and the Construction of Reality in Early Childhood (1978)

113

(31)

6 The Ontogenesis of Dialogue (1979)

144

(11)

PART TWO: TRANSITION FROM CHILD TONGUE TO MOTHER TONGUE

Editor's Introduction

155

(71)

7 Into the Adult Language (1975)

157

(39)

8 The Contribution of Developmental Linguistics to the Interpretations of Language as a System (1980)

196

(13)

9 On the Transition from Child Tongue to Mother Tongue (1983)

209

(17)

10 A Systemic-Functional Interpretation of the Nature and Ontogenesis of Dialogue (1984)

226

(24)

11 The Place of Dialogue in Children's Construction of Meaning (1991)

250

(17)

PART THREE: EARLY LANGUAGE AND LEARNING

Editor's Introduction

267

(2)

12 Relevant Models of Language (1969)

269

(12)

13 The Social Context of Language Development (1975)

281

(27)

14 Three Aspects of Children's Language Development: Learning Language, Learning through Language, Learning about Language (1980)

308

(19)

15 Towards a Language-Based Theory of Learning (1993)

327

(26)

16 Grammar and the Construction of Educational Knowledge (1999)

353

(20)

Bibliography

373

(9)

Appendices

382

(23)

Index

405

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