The Language of Early Childhood

For nearly half a century, Professor M. A. K. Halliday has been enriching the discipline of linguistics with his keen insights into the social semiotic phenomenon we call language. This ten-volume series presents the seminal works of Professor Halliday.

Preface

vii

Acknowledgements

xi

Part One: Infancy and Protolanguage

Editor's Introduction

3

(3)

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

6

(22)

Learning How to Mean (1975)

28

(32)

Early Language Learning: A Sociolinguistic Approach (1976)

60

(30)

A Sociosemiotic Perspective on Language Development (1974)

90

(23)

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

113

(31)

The Ontogenesis of Dialogue (1979)

144

(13)

Part Two: Transition from Child Tongue to Mother Tongue

Editor's Introduction

155

(2)

Into the Adult Language (1975)

157

(39)

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

196

(13)

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

209

(17)

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

226

(24)

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

250

(19)

Part Three: Early Language and Learning

Editor's Introduction

267

(2)

Relevant Models of Language (1969)

269

(12)

The Social Context of Language Development (1975)

281

(27)

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

308

(19)

Towards a Language-Based Theory of Learning (1993)

327

(26)

Grammar and the Construction of Educational Knowledge (1999)

353

(20)

Bibliography

373

(9)

Appendices

382

(23)

Index

405

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The Language of Early Childhood

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