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From everyday exposure to pragmatic mastery

Wermelinger, Stephanie; Daum, Moritz M; Gampe, Anja (2024). From everyday exposure to pragmatic mastery. International Review of Pragmatics, 16(1):149-161.

Abstract

In this paper, we review recent findings on the development of communicative behaviour of monolingual and bilingual toddlers and preschoolers. We describe how the unique experience of growing up with two (or more) languages affects children’s everyday experiences and the pragmatics of their communicative behaviour. Deriving from this literature, we introduce a novel perspective on children’s development of communicative behaviour (COMmmunicative-Experience, COME), discussing potential mechanisms behind this pragmatic behaviour. It assumes that children experience communicative situations of varying efficiency and that these experiences shape their communicative behaviour: The more experiences children have with non-effective communicative situations, the larger their communicative repertoire becomes and the more flexibly this repertoire can be applied in a given situation. Notably, the COME perspective is not limited to bilingual communicative development but can be applied to a variety of other pragmatic contexts. Therefore, we broaden the discussion by identifying open questions for future research.

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Item Type:Journal Article, not_refereed, further contribution
Communities & Collections:06 Faculty of Arts > Institute of Psychology
06 Faculty of Arts > Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development
Special Collections > NCCR Evolving Language
Special Collections > Centers of Competence > Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution
Dewey Decimal Classification:400 Language
150 Psychology
370 Education
Scopus Subject Areas:Social Sciences & Humanities > Language and Linguistics
Social Sciences & Humanities > Communication
Social Sciences & Humanities > Psychology (miscellaneous)
Social Sciences & Humanities > Linguistics and Language
Uncontrolled Keywords:context – communicative flexibility – communicative repertoire – bilingual development – pragmatics
Language:English
Date:5 February 2024
Deposited On:06 Jan 2025 13:00
Last Modified:07 Jan 2025 21:00
Publisher:Brill
ISSN:1877-3109
OA Status:Closed
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.1163/18773109-01601006

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