%A Brigitte Stemmer
%J Brain and Language
%T Introduction
%X The introduction to the special issue briefly discusses the origins and development of the word "pragmatics", pragmatic theory and its application to neurolinguistics. The special issue covers a total of 11 articles investigating pragmatic and neuropragmatic issues from different theoretical, experimental and clinical perspectives.
%N 3
%K neuropragmatics, pragmatics, neurolinguistics, RHD, developmental pragmatics, aphasia, pragmatic impairments, pragmatic assessment, communicative competence, architecture of mind, right hemisphere, localizationof functions, inferences, speech acts, indirect requests, metaphors
%P 389-391
%V 68
%D 1999
%L cogprints125