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O pré-natal psicológico como programa de prevenção à depressão pós-parto
O pré-natal psicológico (PNP) é um novo conceito em atendimento perinatal voltado para maior humanização do processo gestacional e do parto e da parentalidade. Pioneiro em Brasília, o programa visa à integração da gestante e...
Development of Pragmatic and Discourse Skills in Chinese-Speaking Children
For many years, studies of the development of pragmatic and discourse skills in young children have predominantly focused on English and other European languages, as with the field of child language development in general. This...
The Functional Perspective on Language and Discourse
Over the last forty years, the functionalist approach to linguistic description and explanation has given rise to several major schools of thought that share two crucial assumptions: (i) form is not independent of meaning/function or...
‘Pragmatic punting’ and prosody
The aim of this chapter is to present the notion of “pragmatic punting” as the cognitive process that confirms that communication in interaction has achieved its goal. The theoretical tenets of this mechanism are based...
The Evidential Basis of Linguistic Argumentation
Currently, one of the methodological debates in linguistics focuses on the question of what kinds of data are allowed in different linguistic theories and what subtypes of data can work as evidence for or against...
Language Processing and Grammars
There is a growing awareness of the significance and value that modelling using information technology can bring to the functionally oriented linguistic enterprise. This encompasses a spectrum of areas as diverse as concept modelling, language...