The Language of Early Childhood Volume 4.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Halliday, M. A. K., author.

Series:

Halliday, M. A. K. (Michael Alexander Kirkwood), 1925-2018. 2002 ; Works. v. 4.

Collected Works of M.A.K. Halliday

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language acquisition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (430 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York Continuum 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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. This fourth volume contains sixteen papers that look at the development of early childhood language. They are presented in three parts: infancy and protolanguage; the transition from child tongue to mother tongue; and early language and learning. The sociolinguistic account of the early development of the mother tongue presented by Professor Halliday is based on his intensive study of the language of one particular child, Nigel, for the period from nine- to eighteen months.

Contents:

Part 1 Infancy and protolanguage

Editor's Introduction

1 Representing the child as semiotic being: meaning and moving in the earliest months of life

2 Learning how to mean

3 Early language learning: a sociolinguistic approach

4 A sociosemiotic perspective on language development

5 One child's protolanguage

6 Meaning and the construction of reality in early childhood

7 The ontogenesis of dialogue

Part 2 Transition from child tongue to mother tongue

8 Into the adult language

9 On the development of texture in child language

10 The contribution of developmental linguistics to the interpretation of language as a system

11 On the transition from child tongue to mother tongue

12 Language as code and language as behaviour: a systemic-functional interpretation of the nature and ontogenesis of dialogue

13 The place of dialogue in childen's construction of meaning

Part 3 Early language and learning

14 Relevant models of language

15 The social context of language development

16 Three aspects of children's language development: learning language, learning through language, learning about language

17 Towards a language-based theory of learning

18 Grammar and the construction of educational knowledge

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-381) and index.

ISBN:

9786611291976

9781474212007

147421200X

9781281291974

1281291978

9781847144041

1847144047

OCLC:

609838322