Children might combine gesture and prosody to express a pragmatic meaning such as a
request, information focus, uncertainty or politeness, before they can convey these …

Social media is one of the most influential media in all sectors and structures of socio-
cultural life, government law politics, science and technology, and especially education. One …

Pragmatic development involves learning to use linguistic code and non-linguistic action in
a well-integrated way in relation to an ongoing interaction. Given how different languages …

Защита состоится 27 октября 2010 г. в на заседании диссертационного совета Д
212.243. 02 в Саратовском государственном университете им. НГ Чернышевского по …

Gesture and prosody are considered to be important precursors in early language
development. In the present study, we ask whether those cues play a similar role later in …

Speech act of refusal has been one of the important topics in the discourse pragmatic
research over the past few decades. In fact, pragmatics plays a very important role in the …

This paper examines notices with a directive function that have been translated from Greek
into English in the public spaces of Thessaloniki. In particular, it explores the ways in which …

2 INTRODUCTION to enroll all at risk children in their community in preschool education,
lest they are irreversibly disadvantaged when they enter the educational system as 'old'as …

Many theories of language acquisition struggle to account for the morphological complexity
and diversity of the world's languages. This book examines the acquisition of complex …

Karniol engagingly presents social development in children through the language of
preference management. Conversational excerpts garnered from around the world trace …