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.

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Language disorders in children.
Pragmatics.

RJ496.L35 / P737 1994

618.92855 DUC