creators_name: Stemmer, Brigitte type: journalp datestamp: 1999-12-15 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:53:41 metadata_visibility: show title: Introduction ispublished: pub subjects: appl-cog-psy subjects: behav-neuro-sci subjects: cog-psy subjects: ling-prag subjects: neuro-ling subjects: neuro-ling subjects: neuro-neu subjects: neuro-psy subjects: neuro-psych subjects: phil-mind subjects: psy-ling full_text_status: public keywords: 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 abstract: 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. date: 1999 date_type: published publication: Brain and Language volume: 68 number: 3 pagerange: 389-391 refereed: TRUE citation: Stemmer, Brigitte (1999) Introduction. [Journal (Paginated)] document_url: http://cogprints.org/125/1/INTRO2web.html