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.

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Information

Publisher

Continuum

Year

2006

ISBN

9781441184580

Edition

Topic

Languages & Linguistics

Subtopic

Linguistic Semantics

Index

Languages & Linguistics

Contents
1. Emerging Language
2. On Grammar as the Driving Force from Primary to Higher-order Gonsciousness
3. The Evolution of Language: A Systemic Functional Exploration of Phylogenetic Phases
4. Language, Apes and Meaning-Making
5. Agency, Individuation and Meaning-making: Reflections on an Episode of Bonobo-Human Interaction
6. The 'Interpersonal First' Principle in Child Language Development
7. The World in Words: Semiotic Mediation, Tenor and Ideology
8. Two Forms of Human Language
9. Changing the Rules, Changing the Game: A Sociocultural Perspective on Second Language Learning in the Classroom
10. How our Meanings Change: School Contexts and Semantic Evolution
11. Ontogenesis and Grammatics: Functions of Metalanguage in Pedagogical Discourse
Index