Pragmatic development
By: Anat Ninio and Catherine E. Snow.
Contributors: Snow, Catherine E.
Series: Essays in developmental science
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
Subjects: Language acquisition; Pragmatics; Speech acts (Linguistics)
Description: The pragmatic system consists of the rules for appropriate and communicatively effective language use. Pragmatic Development provides an integrated view of the acquisition of all the various pragmatic subsystems, including expression of communicative intents, participation in conversation, and production of extended discourse.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-214) and index.