Publications

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
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

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.