Pragmatics has grown considerably in its relatively short history, from its original disciplinary
influences in philosophy and linguistics, into a multidisciplinary field that encompasses a …

Reading and telling stories to children improves their narrative skills, which is well-
documented for monolinguals, but not for bilinguals. We investigated whether bilingual …

A review of the current literature shows that by the age of two and a half (and probably
earlier), children have already acquired a rich working knowledge of human intentionality …

AbstractThis article represents the interactional approach to the study of child narration. The
analyses reveal the process of story creation by children in the roles of narrator and co …

The paper presents several studies showing differential effects of narrator-listener relation-
ships on the shaping of narrational activity understood as an interactive process. By …

Research interest has been growing in the development of the child in socialinteractional
frameworks (Carsaro, 1981). It is widely assumed that such frame works provide the …

This paper discusses the communicative competence of deaf children. It illustrates the
process in which such children build narrative texts in interaction with a deaf teacher, and …

This paper presents an overview of chosen concepts of irony as a communicative unit in the
repertoire of the speaker. It adopts a framework of narration with emphasis on how minds in …

There are at least two reasons why researchers are interested in studying how children
oppose their partners (peers or adults) and in investigating children's disagreements. Firstly …

This special issue is dedicated to Professor Barbara Bokus to celebrate the 40th year of her
scientific activity and the 20th anniversary of the journal Psychology of Language and …