The Development of Language: Functional Perspectives on Species and Individuals (Paperback)

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