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Ochs, Elinor. 1979. Introduction: What child language can contribute to pragmatics. In Ochs, Elinor and Bambi B. Schieffelin, eds. Developmental pragmatics. Academic Press. pp. 1–17.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English

Annotation

According to O. the study of child language can provide pragmatics with a multidisciplinary research base, a methodology strongly grounded in empirical observation, the opportunity to observe the emergence of contextual sensivity, the translation from content to syntax, and the sozialization of background knowledge essential to the use of language.