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From Utterances to Speech Acts

By Mikhail Kissine

"Kissine offers a new theory of speech acts which is philosophically sophisticated and builds on work in cognitive science, formal semantics, and linguistic typology. This highly readable, brilliant essay is a major contribution to the field."

--François Recanati, Institut Jean-Nicod


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Title: Three is a Crowd?
Subtitle: Acquiring Portuguese in a Trilingual Environment
Written By: Madalena Cruz-Ferreira
URL: http://www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/display.asp?isb=1853598380
Series Title: Child Language and Child Development
Description:

The book describes three siblings' apportioning of linguistic and cultural space among three languages: Portuguese, Swedish and English. Parallel strategies accounting for monolingual and multilingual language management shape a truly illuminating picture of child linguistic competence. Written by a multilingual parent, educator and linguist, this book is for parents, educators and linguists in our predominantly, increasingly multilingual world.

Publication Year: 2006
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
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BibTex: View BibTex record
Linguistic Field(s): Psycholinguistics
Language Acquisition
Subject Language(s): English
Portuguese
Swedish

Versions:
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 1853598380
ISBN-13: N/A
Pages: 344
Prices: U.S. $ 99.95
U.K. £ 54.95
Canada $ 129.95