Acquiring Pragmatics. Social and Cognitive Perspectives

Opis

Acquiring Pragmatics. Social and Cognitive Perspectives. 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,

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