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Publication details [#32008]

Bara, Bruno G., Monica Bucciarelli and Livia Colle. 2003. How children comprehend speech acts and communicative gestures. Journal of Pragmatics 35 (2) : 207–241.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communicative effect | comprehension | meaning | pragmatics | speech act

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper predicts a gradation of difficulty in children's comprehension of direct, indirect, deceitful, and ironic communicative acts, whilst a communicative act is said to have the same difficulty of comprehension, whether performed through speech acts or through communicative gestures.