Book Details
Format
Kindle
Pages
279
Language
English
Published
Jun 4, 2014
Publisher
Continuum
ISBN-10
1306846048
ISBN-13
9781306846042
Description
This book presents a unique range of interdisciplinary work on questions of language development and evolution.It makes visible the significant contribution which meaning-oriented linguistics is making to debates about the origins of language - from the perspective of language evolution in the species as well as language development in the child. As well as linguistics in the systemic functional, or Hallidayan, tradition, the book offers contributions from primatology, psychiatry, sociology and education.