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Perkins, Michael R. 1998. Is pragmatics epiphenomenal? Evidence from communication disorders. Journal of Pragmatics 29 (3) : 291–311.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
cognition | context | explicitness | implicit information | language pathology | pragmatics
Language as a subject
English
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166
Journal WWW
www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This article defines pragmatics as the result of interactions between a set of linguistic and nonlinguistic cognitive subsystems which balance the amount of explicit and implicit information in language use. Data taken from language pathologies support this approach.