Children's pragmatic communication difficulties
"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. The book provides a critical and informative account of what is currently known about children's pragmatic communication difficulties and how these difficulties can be described and explained, and is for both students and researchers in speech and language pathology, linguistics, psychology and education. It will also be of value to practising clinicians who would like updating and succinct access to research findings."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2000
Whurr, London, ©2000