Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface to the handbook series v
3. Preface to Developmental and Clinical Pragmatics ix
4. Table of contents xi
5. 1. Pragmatic competence: Development and impairment 1
6. I. Pragmatic development in a first language
7. 2. Pragmatic development in a first language: An overview 33
8. 3. Communicative act development 61
9. 4. Acquisition of epistemic and evidential expressions 89
10. 5. Acquiring implicatures 119
11. 6. Acquiring irony 149
12. 7. Acquiring prosody 177
13. 8. Pragmatic development in the (middle and) later stages of life 209
14. II. Pragmatic development in a second language
15. 9. Pragmatic development in L2: An overview 237
16. 10. Teaching speech acts in a second language 269
17. 11. Learning how to interpret indirectness in an L2 301
18. 12. Comprehension of implicatures and humor in a second language 331
19. 13. Pragmatic transfer 361
20. 14. Developing pragmatic awareness 393
21. 15. Developing pragmatic competence in a study abroad context 429
22. 16. Testing pragmatic competence in a second language 475
23. III. Pragmatic disorders
24. 17. Pragmatic disorders: An overview 499
25. 18. Pragmatic competence in autism spectrum disorders 523
26. 19. Pragmatic competence in Down syndrome 545
27. 20. Pragmatic competence in aphasia 581
28. 21. Pragmatics and dementia 611
29. 22. Assessing pragmatic competence in developmental disorders 647
30. Contributors 681
31. Name Index 691
32. Subject Index 711