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Publication details [#1818]

Bruner, Jerome S. 1975. The ontogenis of speech acts. Journal of Child Language 2 (1) : 1–19.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

arbitrariness | attention | onset of verbal behavior | speech act, L1-acquisition of

Journal WWW

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Annotation

B. adopts a speech act approach to the transition from prelinguistic to linguistic communication. The structure of language is regarded as non-arbitrary: it is said to reflect attention structures and action structures.