In our everyday life communicative processes are relevant in almost all situations. It is
important to know whether you should say something which is adequate in the situation or
whether it is better to say nothing at all. Communicative competence is fundamental for a
successful life in our society as it is of great importance for all areas of life. Therefore
it is not surprising that communicative competence is the subject of many theoretical and
empirical approaches and in consequence research on this topic is diverse. We focus our
contributions on linguistic aspects of communication. In the centre of interest are linguistic
oriented performances of different forms of communicative competence language acquisition and
language disorders. The topics of this book concern the description of methods for studying
language in the brain the interaction between language and cognition discourse acquisition of
children literacy acquisition and its precursors the use and acquisition of the sign language
models and training of writing and reading nonverbal communicative competence media
competence communication training developmental dyslexia the treatment of stuttering and
the description of language disorders.
