Development of Language
Functional Perspectives
Published on 22. March 2006
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-8264-5758-5 (ISBN)
Description
This book presents a unique range of interdisciplinary work on questions of language development and evolution. It makes visible the significant contribution which meaning-oriented linguistics is making to debates about the origins of language - from the perspective of language evolution in the species as well as language development in the child. As well as linguistics in the systemic functional tradition, the book offers contributions from primatology, psychiatry, sociology and education. The authors are able to address major questions of deep social significance, including: The roles grammar in the emergence of consciousness. The dynamics of language variation, including semantic variation, in children's development. Children's learning in and about a second language. The significance of different ways of talking about language for school literacy development. Understanding borderline personality disorder from the perspective of language development.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8264-5758-5 (9780826457585)
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Additional editions
Geoff Williams | Annabelle Lukin
The Development of Language
Functional Perspectives on Species and Individuals
E-Book
03/2006
1st Edition
Continuum Publishing Corporation
€100.99
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Persons
Geoff Williams is Senior Lecturer in English Language at the University of Sydney. He is widely known for his research in children's literacy development. Annabelle Lukin is a PhD scholar at Macquarie University's Centre for Language in Social Life.
Content
1. Emerging language - Annabelle Lukin and Geoff Williams; 2. On grammar as the driving force from primary to higher-order consciousness - M. A. K. Halliday; 3. The evolution of language: a systemic functional exploration of phylogenetic phases - Christian M. I. M. Matthiessen; 4. Language, apes, and meaning-making - Jared P. Taglialatela, Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Duane M. Rumbaugh, James Benson, William Greaves; 5. Agency, individuation, and meaning-making: reflections on an episode of bonobo-human interaction - Paul J. Thibault; 6. The 'interpersonal first' principle in child language development; 7. The world in words: semiotic mediation, tenor, and ideology - Ruqaiya Hasan; 8. Two forms of human language - Russell Meares and Gavin Sullivan; 9. Changing the rules, changing the game: a sociocultural perspective on second language learning in the classroom - Pauline Gibbons; 10. How our meanings change: school contexts and semcantic evolution - David G. Butt; 11. Ontogenesis and grammatics: functions of metalanguage in pedagogical discourse - Geoff Williams