Language is a child's major tool for learning about the world. Through the taken-for-granted interactions of everyday conversation, a child not only learns the mother tongue, but uses it as a resource for thinking and reasoning. 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.
The case study examines...
Language is a child's major tool for learning about the world. Through the taken-for-granted interactions of everyday conversation, a child not onl...
Uses systemic-functional theory to give an account of visual meaning using three perspectives: the visual construction of the narrative events and characters, the visual positioning of the reader through choices related to focalisation and appraisal and the discourse organization of visual meanings through choices in framing and composition.
Uses systemic-functional theory to give an account of visual meaning using three perspectives: the visual construction of the narrative events and cha...
