PRAGMATIC DEVELOPMENT IN TYPICALLY HEARING CHILDREN

Pragmatics is the domain of language that relates linguistic forms to the people using them. The development of pragmatics starts from birth with caregiver-infant exchanges and builds right up to understanding functionally complex forms of language including sarcasm. This brief overview will conside...

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Published in:The Volta review 2022-01, Vol.121 (1.2), p.43-58
Main Author: Matthews, Danielle
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Babies
Caregivers
Children
Cultural Context
Deafness
Developmental Stages
Grammar
Hearing disorders
Interpersonal communication
Language
Language Acquisition
Linguistics
Nonverbal Communication
Oral Language
Parents
Pragmatics
Semantics
Semiotics
Sentence structure
Sign language
Speech Acts
Spoken language
Verbal communication
Young Children
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Summary:Pragmatics is the domain of language that relates linguistic forms to the people using them. The development of pragmatics starts from birth with caregiver-infant exchanges and builds right up to understanding functionally complex forms of language including sarcasm. This brief overview will consider the pragmatic developments that come with the discovery of pre-linguistic communication, words, sentences, and suprasentential structures as well as different types of non-literal language. The focus will be on the developmental trajectory of typically hearing children learning a spoken language, although some signposts to research with deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) children learning spoken and/or signed languages will be given along the way. As we will come to see, pragmatic development depends critically on accessing interaction with others in order for children to become effective communicators who can build on their confidence at each stage in order to reach the next.
ISSN:0042-8639
2162-5158