Pragmatic impairment /
Michael Perkins.
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, c2007.
- xii, 230 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of figures; List of table; Acknowledgements; Transcription conventions; 1. Introduction; 2. Pragmatic theory and pragmatic impairment; 3. Pragmatics and modularity: components, dissociations and associations; 4. Pragmatic ability and disability: an emergentist model; 5. Cognition and pragmatics; 6. Language and pragmatics; 7. Sensorimotor systems and pragmatics; 8. Compensatory adaptation; 9. Conclusions; Appendix; References; Index.