Acquiring Pragmatics: Social and cognitive perspectives

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