Developmental and Clinical Pragmatics / Klaus P. Schneider, Elly Ifantidou.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ifantidou, Elly, Editor.

Schneider, Klaus P., Editor.

Series:

Handbooks of pragmatics ; v. 13.

Handbooks of Pragmatics [HOPS] ; 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pragmatics.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (738 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This handbook provides a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of a wide range of developmental and clinical issues in pragmatics. Principally, the contributions to this volume deal with pragmatic competence in a native language, in a second or foreign language, and in a selection of language disorders. The topics which are covered explore questions of production and comprehension on the utterance and discourse level. Topics addressed concern the acquisition and learning, teaching and testing, assessment and treatment of various aspects of pragmatic ability, knowledge and use. These include, for example, the acquisition and development of speech acts, implicatures, irony, story-telling and interactional competence. Phenomena such as pragmatic awareness and pragmatic transfer are also addressed. The disorders considered include clinical conditions pertaining to children and to adults. Specifically, these are, among others, autism spectrum disorders, Down syndrome, and Alzheimer's disease.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface to the handbook series

Preface

Table of contents

1. Pragmatic competence: Development and impairment

2. Pragmatic development in a first language: An overview

3. Communicative act development

4. Acquisition of epistemic and evidential expressions

5. Acquiring implicatures

6. Acquiring irony

7. Acquiring prosody

8. Pragmatic development in the (middle and) later stages of life

9. Pragmatic development in L2: An overview

10. Teaching speech acts in a second language

11. Learning how to interpret indirectness in an L2

12. Comprehension of implicatures and humor in a second language

13. Pragmatic transfer

14. Developing pragmatic awareness

15. Developing pragmatic competence in a study abroad context

16. Testing pragmatic competence in a second language

17. Pragmatic disorders: An overview

18. Pragmatic competence in autism spectrum disorders

19. Pragmatic competence in Down syndrome

20. Pragmatic competence in aphasia

21. Pragmatics and dementia

22. Assessing pragmatic competence in developmental disorders

Contributors

Name Index

Subject Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Aug 2020)

ISBN:

3-11-043105-X

OCLC:

1191758849