SPECIAL ARTICLEInteraction, Communication, and Self
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This paper was presented as the William Alanson White Lecture, 1982. An earlier version was given jointly as the Loretta Bender Lecture, 1982, and as the Plenary Address at the 29th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry, October 20, 1982, Washington, D.C.
Mastery of the pragmatics of language enables the child to choose among alternative symbolic means for making intentions clear, for constituting social realities, and for negotiating meanings. It is argued that this sense of “pragmatic agency” provides a crucial ingredient in the forming of self.
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