Who's doing developmental pragmatics?

[Shoshana Blum-Kulka]

Dear Gerlind,

Great idea, I'd love to join the group. We have two projects going on developmental pragmatics-in the first we have followed two cohorts of Israeli children for three years (combining ethnography with semi-structured interviews) initially looking at the development of extended genres, like explanations and narratives, and more recently at various discourse phenomena in natural peer talk, like speech representation, pretend play and literate language and the emergence of sociable conversation. Part of this work is cross-cultural, examining the spread of all genres in the natural peer talk of young Israeli and American children (with Catherine Snow and Rebecca Sutherland) (a list of publications from this project can be provided later on). The second  project focuses on the development of pragmatic competence in Hebrew as as a seond language by young (preschool and kindergarten) immigrant children in Israel; this too is a longitudinal study, currently its third year, combining linguistic ethnography, semi-structured interviews and standard tests.
best,

Shoshana Blum-Kulka

Professor Emerita Shoshana Blum-Kulka
Department of Communication and School of Education
Hebrew University
Jerusalem, 91905
Israel 


  From: Margaret Friend 
  To: "Gedeon Deák" ; Brian MacWhinney 
  Cc: info-childes at mail.talkbank.org 
  Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2007 2:33 AM
  Subject: Re: Who's doing developmental pragmatics?


  Please include me as well!  I'm primarily interested in pragmatic cues in the input.  Thanks for a great idea!

  Maggie Friend

  At 04:41 PM 10/12/2007, Gedeon Deák wrote:

    I'd be interested in participating in the group.
    Yes, as Brian says, a google group would be extremely easy to set up--no moderator needed.
    -Gedeon

    On 10/12/07, Brian MacWhinney <macw at cmu.edu> wrote:

      Dear Gerlind, Bhuvana, and Kurumada, 


           How about a new mailing list at googlegroups.com?  We could call

      it chiprag at googlegroups.com .   We recently moved info-

      chibolts at mail.talkbank.org to chibolts at googlegroups.com and, so far,

      my opinion of the Google Groups facility is very positive.  I would 

      be willing to set this up, but it would be even better if some senior

      figure in Developmental Pragmatics would take this on.  Failing that,

      an energetic young person with good computer access would serve fine

      too.  Failing that, I could give it a try.


      --Brian MacWhinney


      On Oct 12, 2007, at 3:29 PM, Gerlind Hauser wrote:


      > Dear Info-CHILDES,

      >

      > as Brian MacWhinney said: it's time to get back to the central 

      > task: So, I am looking for the people out there doing developmental

      > pragmatics as one important aspect of language acquisition. It

      > seems that there are not so many working on this topic nowadays and 

      > I thought a bit of networking might be a good idea to see how we

      > could better exchange our ideas and strengthen the field a bit.

      > Please let me know any ideas. Maybe we could start by creating a

      > mailing list of the people interested in this topic.

      >

      > Thanks and have a nice day!

      >

      > Gerlind

      >

      >

      >






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    Gedeon O. Deák, Ph.D.
    Department of Cognitive Science
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  Margaret Friend, Ph.D.
  Child Language and Emotion Lab
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