Acquiring pragmatics : social and cognitive perspectives /

Acquiring pragmatics : social and cognitive perspectives /

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Author / Creator:	Zufferey, Sandrine, author.
Imprint:	London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.
Description:	xii, 202 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Discourse analysis -- Social aspects. Pragmatics -- Social aspects. Speech acts (Linguistics) Cognitive grammar. Language acquisition. Cognitive grammar. Discourse analysis -- Social aspects. Language acquisition. Speech acts (Linguistics)
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10350415

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ISBN:	9780415746427 (hardback) 0415746426 (hardback) 9780415746441 (pbk.) 0415746442 (pbk.) 9781315747958 (ebook)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	During the past decades, pragmatics has been a rapidly growing field of study, and considerable paradigm shifts have occurred. From the study of socially determined rules governing the production of speech acts, pragmatics has now also become part of the cognitive sciences, and aims at understanding how listeners bridge the gap between the under-determined linguistic meaning of utterances and the full-blown speaker's meaning. Acquiring Pragmatics is a comprehensive synthesis of state-of-the-art research on the acquisition of pragmatics, covering both social and cognitive dimensions. The text introduces advanced undergraduate and graduate students, as well as scholars from neighboring fields of study to the current topics of research in theoretical pragmatics, the issues they raise for language acquisition research and the new experimental designs that have been developed to address them empirically.
Standard no.:	40024436285

Table of Contents:

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