Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- PART ONE: INFANCY AND PROTOLANGUAGE -- Editor's Introduction -- 1 Representing the Child as a Semiotic Being (One Who Means) (1998) -- 2 Learning How to Mean (1975) -- 3 Early Language Learning: A Sociolinguistic Approach (1976) -- 4 A Sociosemiotic Perspective on Language Development (1974) -- 5 Meaning and the Construction of Reality in Early Childhood (1978) -- 6 The Ontogenesis of Dialogue (1979) -- PART TWO: TRANSITION FROM CHILD TONGUE TO MOTHER TONGUE -- Editor's Introduction -- 7 Into the Adult Language (1975) -- 8 The Contribution of Developmental Linguistics to the Interpretation of Language as a System (1980) -- 9 On the Transition from Child Tongue to Mother Tongue (1983) -- 10 A Systemic-Functional Interpretation of the Nature and Ontogenesis of Dialogue (1984) -- 11 The Place of Dialogue in Children's Construction of Meaning (1991) -- PART THREE: EARLY LANGUAGE AND LEARNING -- Editor's Introduction -- 12 Relevant Models of Language (1969) -- 13 The Social Context of Language Development (1975) -- 14 Three Aspects of Children's Language Development: Learning Language, Learning through Language, Learning about Language (1980) -- 15 Towards a Language-Based Theory of Learning (1993) -- 16 Grammar and the Construction of Educational Knowledge (1999) -- Bibliography -- Appendices -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.