Postoji li pragmatički jezični poremećaj?
Is There a Pragmatic Language Impairment?

Summary/Abstract: Within the last two decades scholars and therapists have been focusing on the role of pragmatics in speech and language communication, as in common development and especially in possible disorders. Namely, adequate development of morphology, syntax and other language aspects in the preschool period is not sufficient for efficient communication within the situational and social context. Pragmatic abilities are, among other, grounded on understanding owns and other people intentions and on continuous integration of different information during conversation. Assessment of conversational skills requires situational context that is as natural as possible and acquired structural aspects of language. There are also other reasons, beside the previously named, why pragmatic language disorders often pass unnoticed in clinical work or became labeled as other close disorder. As scientific literature also does not suggest clear and uniform definition and official categorization of pragmatic language impairments, this work shows a case study of a child whose clinical features fulfill all the criteria for pragmatic language impairment proposed by many authors (Bishop, 1998., 2000., 2001.). Results of a two year follow-up are trying to make a contribution to dilemmas about independence of pragmatics, other language aspects and cognitive development, on possible co-occurrence of different disorders and to clear description on indicators of pragmatic language impairments. This longitudinal follow-up also describes a use of different methodological solutions that open up a possibility for reliable screening and assessment of pragmatic language impairments.

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