基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2004. As well as linguistics in the systemic functional tradition, the book offers contributions from primatology, psychiatry, sociology and education.
Full Description
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 (viewed as the evolution of "meaning potential") to language development in the child (viewed as "learning how to mean"). As well as linguistics in the systemic functional, or Hallidayan, tradition, the book offers contributions from primatology, psychiatry, sociology and education. What the authors share is a view of language as a social semiotic system.
By seeing language in this way, and drawing on actual language corpora, the authors are able to address major questions of deep social significance, including: the role of grammar in the emergence of consciousness, from protolanguage to higher order consciousness the dynamics of language variation, including semantic variation, in children's development children's learning in and about a second language the significance of different ways of talking about language for school literacy development understanding borderline personality disorder from the perspective of language development.
Contents
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.
