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ellievanhoutte Six pragmatic categories describe the general purposes of language: control, representation, expressive, social, tutorial, and procedural (Wells, 1985). This table illustrates the relationship of Primitive Speech Acts to later intentions and offers examples of each.
| Broad Pragmatic Categories (Wells, 1985) | Primitive Speech Acts (PSAs) (Dore, 1974) | Early Verbal Intentions (Owens, 1978; Wells, 1985) | Examples |
| Control |
Requesting action Protesting |
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| Representational |
Requesting answer Labeling Answering |
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| Expressive |
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| Social |
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| Tutorial |
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| Procedural |
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*This table represents a combination of the work of several researchers and an attempt to remain true to the intended purposes of child speech.
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