Into the Mother Tongue
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781474246583
Subjects: Children, language
Description: "This book offers a systematic linguistic critique of language development studies since the 1960s. It uses systemic theory to explain and interpret the development of child language, with discussions and illustrative texts to explicate the analysis. Painter provides a rich source of data for child language researchers in all fields, and aims to make a systematic theory more accessible to those interested in the ideas put forward by M.A.K. Halliday in his writings on language development." --Bloomsbury Publishing.