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Pragmatic language impairment: case studies of social and pragmatic language therapy
Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2005The current position on speech and language intervention for children who have pragmatic language impairment (PLI) is limited by a lack of evidence to support practice. Two intervention outcome case studies of children with PLI, aimed at establishing efficacy, are presented in this paper Standardized language tests and conversational sampling were used
Adams, Catherine +3 more
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ON PRAGMATIC DEMARCATION OF LANGUAGE
Theoretical Linguistics, 1978A happy utterance may invoke a variety of rules, of different forms and on distinct grounds. Thus — we are told by William of Sherwood — “the science of discourse… has three parts: grammar, which teaches one how to speak correctly; rhetoric, which teaches one how to speak elegantly; and logic, which teaches one how to speak truly.”1 To be sure, there ...
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Language intervention: A pragmatic approach
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1984The approach to language intervention described in this paper provides a means of teaching pragmatically appropriate and effective uses of language in conversational contexts while simultaneously teaching the production and comprehension of specific linguistic forms.
S, Conant, M, Budoff, B, Hecht, R, Morse
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Pragmatics in Language and Music
1994This paper argues for the importance of the application of pragmatics to music, and in particular to spontaneous composition. Indeed pragmatics, it is proposed, provides a more fruitful link between natural language and music than syntax or semantics.
Kenny R. Coventry, Tim Blackwell 0002
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Pragmatics and the English Language
2014Meaning can kill you. In the UK in 1952, Derek Bentley and Christopher Craig broke into a warehouse. Craig was armed with a revolver. They had been seen entering, and the police were called. One police officer managed to grab hold of Bentley. At this point, witnesses claimed that Bentley said: Let him have it, Chris.
Culpeper, Jonathan, Haugh, Michael
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Pragmatics in Language Teaching
2023This innovative book links theory to practice with regard to teaching pragmatics. In laying out why this is useful, how it is achievable, and what to teach when it comes to pragmatics, this book outlines the theoretical background and offers a wide range of hands-on activities. While offering coverage of timely issues like pragmatics in text messaging,
Celaya Villanueva, Ma. Luz (María Luz), 1962- +2 more
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Pragmatics and Language Change
2014Abstract Language change is the result of innovative communicative practices that spread from innovative individuals to larger communities of language users (communities of practice) and ultimately to entire language communities. Historical pragmatics traces the pragmatic motivations of language change, and investigates the diachronic ...
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Pragmatics in pre‐schoolers with language impairments
International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2010Background: Pragmatic assessment methods are very diverse and differ in informant type. Some rely on parents, others on teachers/professionals and some directly test pragmatic abilities in the children themselves. A widely used pragmatic parent questionnaire is the Children's Communication Checklist—2 (CCC‐2). However, it is not known how scores on the
Geurts, H., Embrechts, M.
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Object Pragmatics and Language Development
Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, 2016The purpose of this contribution is to investigate the advent of language in the light of the appropriation of the cultural uses of the material objects related to material culture and the constitution of their public and shared meanings linked to their uses.
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On the Puzzle of Language, Pragmatics, and Schizophrenia
Psychological Reports, 1999The nature of circularity in thinking about language in schizophrenia is described, and initial observations by Byrne, et al. appropriate for breaking that circularity identified.
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