Pragmatic Development Book

	List of Tables and Figures
	Acknowledgments
1	Introduction: What Is Pragmatics?	1
1.1	Why Study the Development of Pragmatics?	1
1.2	Defining the Domain of Pragmatic Development	3
1.3	The Limits of Pragmatics?	9
1.4	What Does Pragmatic Development Include?	10
1.5	The Theoretical Framework and Scope of This Book	12
2	The Communicative Uses of Speech	15
2.1	What Is a Meaningful Verbal-Communicative Act?	16
2.2	Identifying Types of Communicative Uses of Speech	18
2.3	A Proposal for the Classification of Verbal-Social Meanings	21
2.4	The Ninio and Wheeler Taxonomy and Coding System for Communicative Acts	31
2.5	Other Coding Systems Derived from the Ninio and Wheeler Taxonomy: FCA, INCA-A, PICA-100	39
2.6	Central Questions About the Development of the Communicative Uses of Speech	43
3	Prelinguistic Communication and the Transition to Speech	45
3.1	Prelinguistic Development	45
3.2	The Transition to Speech	48
4	The First Stage of Speech Use	59
4.1	The Characteristics of Early Single-Word Utterances	59
4.2	The Pragmatics of Early Speech	67
4.3	Developmental Trends in the Expression of Communicative Intents	72
4.4	Learning to Express Communicative Intents in the Single-Word Stage	79
5	The Acquisition of a Verbal-Communicative Repertoire	81
5.1	The Size of Children's Verbal-Communicative Repertoire in the First Two Years	83
5.2	General Trends in the Order of Acquisition of Communicative Acts	84
5.3	Developments in the Elicited Verbal Behavior System	88
5.4	Developments in the Marking System	90
5.5	Developments in the Discussion System	93
5.6	Developments in the Action-Negotiation System	96
5.7	Summary: Order of Acquisition of Communicative Acts	103
6	Participation in Verbal Interaction	107
6.1	The Ninio Longitudinal Observational Study	107
6.2	The Harvard Longitudinal Observational Study	127
6.3	Refining Verbal Communication	135
7	Children as Conversationalists	143
7.1	Overview of the Problem	143
7.2	Turn-taking as the Basis of Conversation	147
7.3	Topic Selection and Topic Maintenance	152
7.4	Repair	162
8	The Pragmatics of Connected Discourse	171
8.1	Overview	171
8.2	Assessing the Listener's State of Mind	173
8.3	Narratives	175
8.4	Explanations	187
8.5	Definitions	189
8.6	Summary	191
	References	193
	About the Book and Authors	215
	Index	217