Learning Through Language in Early Childhood

Halliday's theory of language development from the earlier studies of protolanguage and initial grammar, and will be of interest to researchers across a range of disciplines, including systemic functional theory, child language, developmental psychology and educational linguistics.

Preface; 1. The ontogenesis of language and learning: a survey of approaches; 2. Systemic-functional linguistics: language as social semiotic; 3. The construal of things: classification and identification; 4. The construal of events; 5. The construal of semiosis as process; 6. Cause-effect relations; 7. Learning through language