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The Development of Language - Functional Perspectives on Species and Individuals (Paperback, New edition)
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The Development of Language - Functional Perspectives on Species and Individuals (Paperback, New edition)
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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.
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