Acquiring pragmatics : social and cognitive perspectives

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Acquiring pragmatics : social and cognitive perspectives

Sandrine Zufferey

Routledge, 2015

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Acquiring Pragmatics offers a comprehensive synthesis of state-of-the-art research on the acquisition of pragmatics. It introduces the current topics of research in theoretical pragmatics and explores the issues they raise for language acquisition research and the new experimental designs which have been developed to address them. While each chapter covers each topic in depth, it also places a strong emphasis on the underlying methodological aspects of each issue, which will help the reader to develop their own experimental designs. Key topics covered include: The interfaces between pragmatics and language acquisition The social aspects of pragmatic competence The cognitive aspects of pragmatic competence The acquisition of pragmatics in autistic spectrum disorders and second language acquisition Acquiring Pragmatics is key reading for advanced undergraduate and graduate students studying pragmatics and language acquisition.

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Part I: Introduction Chapter 1: Interfaces between pragmatics and language acquisition Chapter 2: Aspects of language acquisition research Part II: Acquiring social aspects of pragmatic competence Chapter 3: Learning how to do things with words: Speech acts Chapter 4: The pragmatics of conversation and discourse structure Part III: Acquiring cognitive aspects of pragmatic competence Chapter 5: Understanding communicative intentions: Theory of mind Chapter 6: Non-literal language use Chapter 7: Pragmatic enrichment Chapter 8: Procedural meaning Part IV: The acquisition of pragmatics under specific constraints Chapter 9: Pragmatic impairments in autistic spectrum disorders Chapter 10: Pragmatics and second language acquisition Conclusion

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