Pragmatics : from theory to practice /
edited by Judith Felson Duchan, Lynne E. Hewitt, Rae M. Sonnenmeier.
- Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c1994.
- x, 214 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Three themes: stage two pragmatics; combating marginality and the relation of theory and practice; every child a storyteller; code switching and language socialization: some probable relationships; culture, conversation and interaction: implications for intervention; ways to teach conversation; children's developing notions of others' minds; facilitating narrative comprehension: the importance of subjectivity; representational play and story enactment: formats for language intervention; children's development of scriptal knowledge; script-based language intervention: learning to participate in life events; intervention for Gestalt-style learners; what is so hard about learning to read?; features of early childhood environments that support development of language and literacy.