LINGUIST List 17.486

Tue Feb 14 2006

Books: Language Acquisition: Halliday, Webster (Ed)

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Directory         1.    Jennifer Lovel, The Language of Early Childhood: Halliday, Webster (Ed)
Message 1: The Language of Early Childhood: Halliday, Webster (Ed)
Date: 09-Feb-2006
From: Jennifer Lovel <jlovelcontinuumbooks.com>
Subject: The Language of Early Childhood: Halliday, Webster (Ed)


Title: The Language of Early Childhood Subtitle: Volume 4 Series Title: Collected Works of M A K Halliday Published: 2006 Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd
                http://www.continuumbooks.com

Author: Michael A K Halliday, University of Sydney Editor: Jonathan J Webster, City University of Hong Kong Paperback: ISBN: 0826488250 Pages: 432 Price: U.S. $ 49.95
Paperback: ISBN: 0826488250 Pages: 432 Price: U.K. £ 25.00
Abstract:

'As this volume in the Collected Works makes clear, Halliday's interest inearly language development is not just an interesting sideline, distinctfrom his major work in developing a systemic functional account oflanguage. Halliday's trail-blazing and detailed study of what childrenprogressively become able to do through acts of meaning is at the same timean attempt to understand how language gradually developed in the humanspecies, as a resource for both construing experience and enactinginterpersonal relationships. The chapters in this volume constitute animportant contribution to both these agendas. Halliday's work on languagedevelopment has also been instrumental in gaining recognition for thecentral role of linguistic meaning making in the successive phases ofeducation, from preschool chat to academic writing. This importantcollection has much to offer to all social scientists and educators as wellas to students of language development.'

Professor Gordon Wells, University of California Santa Cruz.

The Language of Early Childhood contains sixteen papers presented in threeparts: infancy and protolanguage; the transition from child tongue tomother tongue; and early language and learning. The transcripts ofProfessor Halliday's sociolinguistic account of the early linguisticdevelopment of one particular child, Nigel, are included as a CD with thisvolume.

Professor M. A. K. Halliday (b. 1925) was Foundation Professor ofLinguistics at the University of Sydney until his retirement and has taughtas a Visiting Professor around the world. As a self-styled 'generalist' hehas published in many branches of linguistics.

Jonathan J. Webster is Head of the Department of Chinese, Translation andLinguistics at the City University of Hong Kong.

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition                             Psycholinguistics                             Sociolinguistics
Written In: English (eng )

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