Geoff Williams / Annabelle Lukin (eds.)

The Development of Language

Functional Perspectives on Species and Individuals
Herausgeber: Williams, Geoff; Lukin, Annabelle

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Produktbeschreibung

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, or Hallidayan, tradition, the book offers contributions from primatology, psychiatry, sociology and education.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 430g
• ISBN-13: 9780826488787
• ISBN-10: 0826488781
• Artikelnr.: 21721382

Autorenporträt

Geoff Williams is Head of the Department of Language and Literary Education at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Annabelle Lukin is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Language in Social Life, Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

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