The analysis identifies grammar and pragmatics as key factors in understanding self-talk, suggesting new angles for examination.
Having sounded a cautionary note on the precarious empirical basis that all theories of self-talk have to build on, I suggest that self-talk often involves some sort of pretence and that pragmatics may have a bigger role to play in accounting for Wiltschko’s data than she allows for.
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