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The Language of Early Childhood Jonathan J. Webster (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

The Language of Early Childhood By Jonathan J. Webster (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

The Language of Early Childhood by Jonathan J. Webster (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

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Webster presents an edited collection of works by British linguist, M. A. K. Halliday, written between the 1970s and 1990s, and based on Halliday's intensive study as a participant-observer of his own son, Nigel, and his developing language skills.

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The Language of Early Childhood: Volume 4 by Jonathan J. Webster (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

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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'These four volumes (4,5,6 and 7) venture into remarkably diverse fields.How one man could master the minutiae of all these areas of linguistic research is a matter for wonder and admiration. As a linguistic polymath, Halliday far outstrips all contemporaries...One need look forno further explanation of Halliday's current stature as doyen ofBritish linguistics. The publication of Halliday's complete papers is an important contribution to scholarly documentation.' -- Roy Harris * Times Literary Supplement *

About Jonathan J. Webster (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Professor Jonathan J. Webster is Head of the Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics at the City University of Hong Kong. He is also the Managing Editor of the International Linguistics Associations journal WORD, and the editor of the forthcoming Journal of World Languages (2014). M.A.K. Halliday was Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney.

Table of 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 Editor's Introduction 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 Editor's Introduction 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

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NPB9780826458704
9780826458704
082645870X
The Language of Early Childhood: Volume 4 by Jonathan J. Webster (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Jonathan J. Webster (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Collected Works of M.A.K. Halliday
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Hardback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2004-02-09
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