Anat Ninio is Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of Psychology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Catherine E. Snow is Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Education at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education.

• Introduction: What Is Pragmatics? -- The Communicative Uses of Speech -- Prelinguistic Communication and the Transition to Speech -- The First Stage of Speech Use -- The Acquisition of a Verbal-Communicative Repertoire -- Participation in Verbal Interaction -- Children as Conversationalists -- The Pragmatics of Connected Discourse