Acquiring Pragmatics Social and cognitive perspectives [Hardcover]

Acquiring Pragmaticsoffers 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 Pragmaticsis key reading for advanced undergraduate and graduate students studying pragmatics and language acquisition.

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 col#