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(Whurr Publishers) Univ. of Hertfordshire, UK. Gives a current synthesis of work in the field an provides and introduction and detailed discussion of this area. Covers conversational analysis, speech and communicative acts, reference, narrative, pragmatic comprehension, and relevance. For clinicians, students, and researchers. Softcover.
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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.
(Whurr Publishers) Univ. of Hertfordshire, UK. Gives a current synthesis of work in the field an provides and introduction and detailed discussion of this area. Covers conversational analysis, speech and communicative acts, reference, narrative, pragmatic comprehension, and relevance. For clinicians, students, and researchers. Softcover.
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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.
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This is Sarah (S) (aged 10;2) who is conversing with two adults (a research assistant 'A' and one of the authors 'B') while looking at photographs of A's horse. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
children with pragmatic difficulties, pragmatic communication difficulties, pragmatic impairment, pragmatic functioning, pragmatic comprehension, place deixis, developmental notes, pragmatic language difficulties, idiom comprehension, referential usage, pragmatic performance, conversational disability, deictic centre, language impaired children, time deixis, person deixis, input story, elliptical utterances, discourse deixis, original initiation, inferential meaning, implicated meanings, linguistic comprehension, pragmatic disorder, specific language impairment Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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This is Sarah (S) (aged 10;2) who is conversing with two adults (a research assistant 'A' and one of the authors 'B') while looking at photographs of A's horse. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
children with pragmatic difficulties, pragmatic communication difficulties, pragmatic impairment, pragmatic functioning, pragmatic comprehension, place deixis, developmental notes, pragmatic language difficulties, idiom comprehension, referential usage, pragmatic performance, conversational disability, deictic centre, language impaired children, time deixis, person deixis, input story, elliptical utterances, discourse deixis, original initiation, inferential meaning, implicated meanings, linguistic comprehension, pragmatic disorder, specific language impairment Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Pragmatic Assessment and Intervention Issues in Language by Tanya M. Gallagher in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Child Language by Child Language Seminar (1994 University of Wales) in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Developmental Pragmatics by Elinor Ochs in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- San Diego by Lee Peterson in Back Matter
- Pragmatic Disability in Children (Studies in Disorders of Communication) by Michael F. McTear in Back Matter
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