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
Summary
"This book presents a rich naturalistic case study of one child's use of language from two-and-a-half to five years, drawing on systemic functional theory to argue that cognitive development is essentially a linguistic process and offering a new description and interpretation of linguistic and cognitive developments during this period."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [335]-350) and index