婴幼儿的语言(1光盘)

As this volume in the Collected Works makes clear, Halliday‘s interest in early
language development is not just an interesting sideline, distinct from his major
work in developing a systemic functional account of language. Halliday‘s
trail-blazing and detailed study of what children progressively become able to do
through acts of meaning is at the same time an attempt to understand how
language gradually developed in the human species, as a resource for both
construing experience and enacting interpersonal relationships. The chapters in
this volume constitute an important contribution to both these agendas.
Halliday‘s work on language development has also been instrumental in gaining
recognition for the central role of linguistic meaning making in the successive
phases of education, from pre-school chat to academic writing. This important
collection has much to offer to all social scientists and educators as well as to
students of language development.‘
PROFESSOR GORDON WELLS, University of California, Santa Cruz.
The Language of Early Childhood contains sixteen papers presented in three parts:
infancy and protolanguage; the transition from child tongue to mother tongue; and early
language and learning. The transcripts of Professor Halliday‘s sociolinguistic account of
the early linguistic development of one particular child, Nigel, are included on the CD
accompanying this volume.
Professor M. A. K. Halliday （b. 1925） was Foundation Professor of Linguistics at the
University of Sydney until his retirement and has taught as a Visiting Professor around
the world. As a self-styled‘generalist‘ he has published in many branches of linguistics.
Jonathan J. Webster is Head of the Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics
at the City University of Hong Kong.