LIN 3713 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Joint Attention, Pragmatics
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Module 6 notes: the pragmatic building blocks (pence-turnbull and justice: the building blocks of pragmatics) Pragmatic development involves acquiring the rules of language that govern how language is used as a social tool. Pragmatic building blocks: there are three important aspects of pragmatic development: (1) using language for different communication functions, (2) developing conversational skills, and (3) gaining sensitivity to extralinguistic cues. Behind every utterance there is an intention. There are six basic functions of communication: (1) instrumental used to achieve actions or objects, (2) regulatory used to control other people"s behavior, (3) Interactional used to interact with other people, (4) personal used to express a personal state, (5) heuristic used to gather information and explore the environment, and (6) imaginative used to create and pretend. Early in life children acquire a basic range of functions, and across their life span s they become increasingly sophisticated in expressing these functions.
