Susan M. Ervin-Tripp
List of John Benjamins publications in which Susan M. Ervin-Tripp is involved.
2022 Developmental psychology Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 466–474 | Chapter
2014 Conversational input to bilingual children Language in Interaction: Studies in honor of Eve V. Clark, Arnon, Inbal, Marisa Casillas, Chigusa Kurumada and Bruno Estigarribia (eds.), pp. 13–28 | Article
All children learn from conversational input, including children who have simultaneous or successive acquisition of several languages in childhood. Partners who stimulate speech by asking questions, responding, and expanding a child’s utterances can accelerate learning at all levels of language, in… read more
2012 Pragmatics as a facilitator for child syntax development Pragmaticizing Understanding: Studies for Jef Verschueren, Meeuwis, Michael and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 77–100 | Article
Early research on the development of children’s syntax did not include the pragmatic context in describing syntactic changes. Halliday, in a case study, was the first to make the connection of form and function. Studies of larger samples from the standpoint of communicative function, using films,… read more
2009 Developmental psychology Cognition and Pragmatics, Sandra, Dominiek, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 146–156 | Article
2009 The occasioning of self-disclosure humor Humor in Interaction, Norrick, Neal R. and Delia Chiaro (eds.), pp. 3–28 | Article
Humor can be an effective means for introducing or modulating a discussion on matters of personal importance. In this paper, we examine the circumstances under which humor appears in conversational self-disclosures with friends. In an exploratory sample of 94 cases of self-disclosing humor from… read more
1997 The Occasioning and Structure of Conversational Stories Conversation: Cognitive, communicative and social perspectives, Givón, T. (ed.), pp. 133–166 | Article
1996 Shifting face from Asia to Europe Essays in Semantics and Pragmatics: In honor of Charles J. Fillmore, Shibatani, Masayoshi and Sandra A. Thompson (eds.), pp. 43–72 | Article
1995 Developmental psychology Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman and Jan Blommaert † (eds.), pp. 227–234 | Article
1987 4. Cross-cultural and developmental sources of pragmatic generalizations The Pragmatic Perspective: Selected papers from the 1985 International Pragmatics Conference, Verschueren, Jef and Marcella Bertuccelli Papi (eds.), pp. 47–60 | Chapter
1981 How to make and understand a request Possibilities and Limitations of Pragmatics: Proceedings of the Conference on Pragmatics, Urbino, July 8–14, 1979, Parret, Herman, Marina Sbisà and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 195–210 | Article