Preface Acknowledgements PART ONE: INFANCY AND PROTOLANGUAGE Editors 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 Earl Cilhood (1978) 6 The Ontogenesis of Dialogue (1979) PART TWO: TRANSITION FROM CHILD TONGUE TO MOTHER TONGUE Editors 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 Childrens Construction of Meaning (1991) PART THREE: EARLY LANGUAGE AND LEARNING Editors Introduction 12 Relevant Models of Language (1969) 13 The Social Context of Language Development (1975) 14 Three Aspects of Childrens 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