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The Language of Early Childhood is the fourth volume in the collected works of Professor M.A.K. Halliday. Eighteen papers looking at the development of early childhood language are presented over three sections: infancy and protolanguage; transition from childhood tongue to mother tongue; early language and learning. The sociolinguistic account of the early development of the mother tongue presented in Professor Halliday's works is based on his intensive study of the language of one particular child, Nigel, for the period from nine to eighteen months. The complete 'Nigel Transcripts' will also be included on CD with this volume.
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Volume 4 in the Collected Works of M. A. K. Halliday
Language ot Early Childhood
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M. A. K. Halliday Edited by Jonathan Webster
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Halliday, M . A. K. (Michael Alexander Kirkwood), 1025The language of early childhood / M.A.K. Halliday; edited by Jonathan Webster. p. cni. - (Collected works of M.A.K. Hallidny) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8264-5870-X 1. Language acquisition. 1. Wchstrr, Jonathan, 19.5.5- 11. Title. 1'1 18.H297 2003 401 '.93-d~21
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CONTENTS
Preface
vii
Acknowledgements
xi
PART O N E : INFANCY AND PROTOLANGUAGE
3
Editor's Introduction
1 Representing the Child as a Semiotic Being (One Who Means) (1998)
6
2 Learning How to Mean (1975)
28
3 Early Language Learning: A Sociolinguistic Approach (1976)
60
4 A Sociosemiotic Perspective on Language Development (1974)
90
5 Meaning and the Construction of Reality in Early Childhood (1978)
113
6 The Ontogenesis of Dialogue (1979)
144
PART TWO: TONGUE
TRANSITION FROM CHILD TONGUE TO MOTHER
Editor's Introduction 7 Into the Adult Language (1975)
155 157
C 0 N T E N TS
PART
8 The Contribution of Developmental Linguistics to the Interpretation of Language as a System (1980)
196
9 O n the Transition from Child Tongue to Mother Tongue (1983)
209
10 A Systemic-Functional Interpretation of the Nature and Ontogenesis of Dialogue (1984)
226
11 The Place of Dialogue in Children’s Construction of Meaning (1991)
250
THREE: EARLYLANGUAGE AND LEARNING Editor’s Introduction
267
12 Relevant Models of Language (1969)
269
13 The Social Context of Language Development (1975)
28 1
308 14 Three Aspects of Children’s Language Development: Learning Language, Learning through Language, Learning about Language (1980) 15 Towards a Language-Based Theory of Learning (1993) 16 Grammar and the Construction of Educational Knowledge (1999)
327
353
Bibliography
373
Appendices
382
Index
405
vi
PREFACE