Publications

Publication details [#10682]

Ervin-Tripp, Susan M. 1987. Cross-cultural and developmental sources of pragmatic generalizations. In Verschueren, Jef and Marcella Bertucelli-Papi, eds. The pragmatic perspective: Selected papers from the 1985 International Pragmatics Conference. John Benjamins. pp. 47–60.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational maxim | developmental psycholinguistics | language acquisition | pragmatic theory | speech act theory

Person as a subject

Grice, P.H. | Searle, J.R.

Annotation

On the impact of research on child language development and cross-cultural variability for making generalizations in pragmatics. Special attention is paid to Grice's maxims, and to speech act theory.