--- 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.' altloc: - http://www.idealibrary.com - http://www.europe.idealibrary.com chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Stemmer given: Brigitte honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 1999 date_type: published datestamp: 1999-12-15 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/01/25 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: [] eprint_status: archive eprintid: 125 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/text_html.png;/125/1/INTRO2web.html full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] 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' lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:53:41 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: 3 pagerange: 389-391 pubdom: FALSE publication: Brain and Language publisher: ~ refereed: TRUE referencetext: ~ relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 8 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2007-09-12 16:23:59 subjects: - appl-cog-psy - behav-neuro-sci - cog-psy - ling-prag - neuro-ling - neuro-ling - neuro-neu - neuro-psy - neuro-psych - phil-mind - psy-ling succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: Introduction type: journalp userid: 469 volume: 68