Pragmatics at Issue

1. Preface; 2. Preschoolers' active search for pragmatic knowledge (by Becker, Judith A.); 3. Children's pragmatic knowledge of narrative tasks (by Bokus, Barbara); 4. Psychopragmatics vs. sociopragmatics: the function of pragmatic markers in thinking-aloud protocols (by Caron-Prague, Josiane); 5. Semantics, pragmatics, and situated meaning (by Cicourel, Aaron V.); 6. Conceptual and semantic co-ordination in children's dialogue (by Clark, Aileen); 7. How much pragmatics and how much grammar: yhe case of Haruai (by Comrie, Bernard); 8. A sociolinguistic model of successful speech act construction (by Connor-Linton, Jeff); 9. Towards a model for generating cleft sentences (by Delin, Judy); 10. Four properties of speech-in-interaction and the notion of translocutionary act (by Duranti, Alessandro); 11. The study of argumentation from a speech act perspective (by Eemeren, Frans H. van); 12. Intentional ascription, autisma and trooubles with content (by Gelder, Beatrice de); 13. Children's referential communication in a game situation (by Hedelin, Lisbeth); 14. Towards a computational theory of speech acts (by Smith, Peter); 15. The description of utterances in conversation (by Tsui, Amy B.M.); 16. Primal content and actual content: an antidote to literal meaning (by Wilensky, Robert); 17. References; 18. Index of names; 19. Index of subjects