Contents -- Tables -- Figures -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- PART ONE: CHILDHOOD AND THE GROWING DEVELOPMENT OF DISCOURSE -- 2 Representing the Child as a Semiotic Being (One Who Means) -- 3 Reading Picture Reading: A Study in Ideology and Inference -- 4 Learning Language: Learning Culture in Singapore -- 5 A Framework for Tracing the Development of Children's Writing in Primary Schools -- 6 An Analysis of a Children's History Text -- PART TWO: DISCOURSE IN SECONDARY AND TERTIARY LEVELS OF EDUCATION -- 7 Revisiting Some Old Themes: The Role of Grammar in the Teaching of English -- 8 What Should We Teach about the Paradoxes of English Nominalization? -- 9 Discourses in Secondary School Mathematics Classrooms According to Social Class and Gender -- 10 Teaching Radha to (Re-)Write: Authority, Positioning, Discourse -- 11 The Evaluation of Causal Discourse and Language as a Resource for Meaning -- 12 Sense and Sensibility: Texturing Evaluation -- 13 On the Preferential Co-occurrence of Processes and Circumstantial Adjuncts: Some Corpus Evidence -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.