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Communication problems in children that are best described as pragmatic in nature have been a focus of attention for some years. However, despite this, speech and language therapists, teachers and researchers still have some difficulty describing, defining and explaining such problems. This book gives an up to date synthesis of work in the field of childhood pragmatic problems and provides both an introduction and more detailed consideration of this complex area.

Aspects covered include conversational analysis, speech and communicative acts, reference, narrative, pragmatic comprehension and relevance. Each chapter contains exercises with discussion, notes on normal development and illustrative clinical data from children, as well as recent research in the area.



Table of Contents

Central issues.

Communicative use of language: Speech and communicative acts.

Discourse and conversational analysis.

Referring expressions.

Narratives and story telling.

Pragmatic comprehension.

Pragmatic principles and relevance.

What is pragmatic impairment?

References.

Children's Pragmatic Communication Difficulties

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      Publisher John Wiley & Sons
      Published 1 January 2000
      ISBN-13 9781861561572
      978-1861561572
      ISBN-10 1861561571
      Also in:
      Psycholinguistics Paediatric medicine Child and developmental psychology

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Communication problems in children that are best described as pragmatic in nature have been a focus of attention for some years. However, despite this, speech and language therapists, teachers and researchers still have some difficulty describing, defining and explaining such problems. This book gives an up to date synthesis of work in the field of childhood pragmatic problems and provides both an introduction and more detailed consideration of this complex area.

      Aspects covered include conversational analysis, speech and communicative acts, reference, narrative, pragmatic comprehension and relevance. Each chapter contains exercises with discussion, notes on normal development and illustrative clinical data from children, as well as recent research in the area.



      Table of Contents

      Central issues.

      Communicative use of language: Speech and communicative acts.

      Discourse and conversational analysis.

      Referring expressions.

      Narratives and story telling.

      Pragmatic comprehension.

      Pragmatic principles and relevance.

      What is pragmatic impairment?

      References.

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