Michael Perkins

Pragmatic Impairment (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Pragmatics - the way we communicate using more than just language - is particularly problematic for people with speech disorders. Through an extensive analysis of how pragmatics can go wrong, this 2007 book not only provides a clinically useful account of pragmatic impairment, but it also throws light on how pragmatics functions in healthy individuals. Michael Perkins brings mainstream and clinical pragmatics together by showing that not only can our understanding of pragmatics be aided by the study of pragmatic impairment, but that clinical and theoretical pragmatics are better served by treating pragmatic ability and disability within a single framework. It is a comprehensive book aimed primarily at linguists and psycholinguists rather than clinicians, and includes illustrative material on conditions such as autism and aphasia and a wide range of other communication disorders in both children and adults.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511388910
• Artikelnr.: 38206757

Autorenporträt

MICHAEL R. PERKINS is Professor of Clinical Linguistics in the Department of Human Communication Sciences at the University of Sheffield.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
List of table
Acknowledgements
Transcription conventions
1. Introduction
2. Pragmatic theory and pragmatic impairment
3. Pragmatics and modularity: components, dissociations and associations
4. Pragmatic ability and disability: an emergentist model
5. Cognition and pragmatics
6. Language and pragmatics
7. Sensorimotor systems and pragmatics
8. Compensatory adaptation
9. Conclusions
Appendix
References
Index.