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Publication details [#45804]
Cummings, Louise. 2007. Clinical pragmatics: A field in search of phenomena? Language & Communication 27 (4) : 396–432.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
Journal WWW
Annotation
This paper argues that given the uncertainty concerning the scope of clinical pragmatics, some behaviors in a number of clinical studies have been erroneously defined as pragmatic. It then discusses the implications of these incorrect characterisations for the evaluation and treatment of pragmatic language disorders and proposes ways of avoiding such errors in the future.