The Language of Early Childhood : Volume 4 (Hardcover)

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