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Introduction: What Is Pragmatics? -- The Communicative Uses Of Speech -- Prelinguistic Communication And The Transition To Speech -- The First Stage Of Speech Use -- The Acquisition Of A Verbal-communicative Repertoire -- Participation In Verbal Interaction -- Children As Conversationalists -- The Pragmatics Of Connected Discourse Anat Ninio And Catherine E. Snow. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.