dc.date.accessioned | 2023-03-01T17:55:25Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-03-01T17:55:25Z | |
dc.date.created | 2022-01-07T11:50:01Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Falkum, Ingrid Lossius . The development of non-literal uses of language: Sense conventions and pragmatic competence. Journal of Pragmatics. 2022, 188, 97-107 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10852/100556 | |
dc.description.abstract | A growing body of developmental evidence suggests that the cognitive abilities that enable the expression and comprehension of communicative intentions – so-called pragmatic abilities – which underlie language use and understanding, develop early. However, a puzzling feature of pragmatic development is children's difficulties with non-literal uses of language (e.g., ‘I love you so much I could eat you up!’). I outline a research program that aims to provide input to a novel theoretical account of pragmatic development that resolves this developmental puzzle. Rather than investigating different types of non-literal language use in isolation, we should adopt a global perspective on children's pragmatic difficulties. On the basis of experimental evidence from children's comprehension of metonymy and irony, I hypothesise that children's growing sensitivity to sense conventions impedes their pragmatic reasoning with non-literal uses during the preschool years. According to this hypothesis, children's ‘literalism’ does not result from poor pragmatic abilities, but arises because attending to conventions – and to sense conventions in particular - serves an important function at a particular stage of language and social learning. The aim is to open a new direction for empirical research into the development of non-literal uses of language, and pragmatic development more generally. | |
dc.language | EN | |
dc.rights | Attribution 4.0 International | |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
dc.title | The development of non-literal uses of language: Sense conventions and pragmatic competence | |
dc.title.alternative | ENEngelskEnglishThe development of non-literal uses of language: Sense conventions and pragmatic competence | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
dc.creator.author | Falkum, Ingrid Lossius | |
cristin.unitcode | 185,14,33,0 | |
cristin.unitname | Institutt for filosofi, idé- og kunsthistorie og klassiske språk | |
cristin.ispublished | true | |
cristin.fulltext | original | |
cristin.qualitycode | 2 | |
dc.identifier.cristin | 1976462 | |
dc.identifier.bibliographiccitation | info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.jtitle=Journal of Pragmatics&rft.volume=188&rft.spage=97&rft.date=2022 | |
dc.identifier.jtitle | Journal of Pragmatics | |
dc.identifier.volume | 188 | |
dc.identifier.startpage | 97 | |
dc.identifier.endpage | 107 | |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2021.12.002 | |
dc.type.document | Tidsskriftartikkel | |
dc.type.peerreviewed | Peer reviewed | |
dc.source.issn | 0378-2166 | |
dc.type.version | PublishedVersion | |
dc.relation.project | EC/H2020/853211 (ERC StG project DEVCOM) | |
dc.relation.project | NFR/223265 | |