Nonliteral language forms in children: In what order are they acquired in pragmatics and metapragmatics?

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2115-2132

  Bernicot, Josie ^a   Laval, Virginie ^a   Chaminaud, Stéphanie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

Author keywords

Children; Conversational implicature; Idiom; Indirect request; Metapragmatics; Nonliteral language; Pragmatics

Indexed keywords

EID: 35448949106     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2007.05.009     Document Type: Article

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