David Pagmar Researcher

My reseach concerns the development of pragmatic competence and its connection to other linguistic abilities. In general terms, I'm interested in how people learn to use their first langugae.

     Pragmatic competence is a general term for a wide set of different abilities, e.g. providing sufficient information, avoiding irrelevant information, making inferences based on what others say, being timely in conversation, etc.

     When a language user utilizes their pragmatic competence, they are acting in agreement with a set of asumptions about how one can, and should, communicate.