Preface
Acknowledgements
PART ONE: INFANCY AND PROTOLANGUAGE
Editor's Introduction
1 Representing the Child as a Semiotic Being (One Who Means) (1998)
2 Learning How to Mean (1975)
3 Early Language Learning: A Sociolinguistic Approach (1976)
4 A Sociosemiotic Perspective on Language Development (1974)
5 Meaning and the Construction of Reality in Early Childhood (1978)
6 The Ontogenesis of Dialogue (1979)
PART TWO: TRANSITION FROM CHILD TONGUE TO MOTHER TONGUE
Editor's Introduction
7 Into the Adult Language (1975)
8 The Contribution of Developmental Linguistics to the Interpretation of Language as a System (1980)
9 On the Transition from Child Tongue to Mother Tongue (1983)
10 A Systemic-Functional Interpretation of the Nature and Ontogenesis of Dialogue (1984)
11 The Place of Dialogue in Children's Construction of Meaning (1991)
PART THREE: EARLY LANGUAGE AND LEARNING Editor's Introduction
12 Relevant Models of Language (1969)
13 The Social Context of Language Development (1975)
14 Three Aspects of Children's Language Development: Learning Language, Learning through Language, Learning about Language (1980)
15 Towards a Language-Based Theory of Learning (1993)
16 Grammar and the Construction of Educational Knowledge (1999)
Bibliography
Appendices
Index
