The Handbook of Clinical Linguistics (E-Book, PDF)

eBook - Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
ISBN/EAN: 9781444301014
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 712 S., 4.37 MB
Format: PDF
DRM: Adobe DRM
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<i>The Handbook of Clinical Linguistics</i> brings together an international team of contributors to create an original, in-depth survey of the field for students and practitioners of speech-language pathology, linguistics, psychology, and education.<br /><ul><li>Explores the field of clinical linguistics: the application of the principles and methods of linguistics to the study of language disability in all its forms<br /></li><li>Fills a gap in the existing literature, creating the first non-encyclopedic volume to explore this ever-expanding area of linguistic concern and research<br /></li><li>Includes a range of pathologies, with each section exploring multilingual and cross-linguistics aspects of the field, as well as analytical methods and assessment<br /></li><li>Describes how mainstream theories and descriptions of language have been influenced by clinical research</li></ul>
Martin J. Ball is Hawthorne Endowed Professor and Head of the Department of Communicative Disorders at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.Michael R. Perkins is Professor of Clinical Linguistics in the Department of Human Communication Sciences at the University of Sheffield, England.Nicole Müller is Hawthorne-BoRSF Endowed Professor in the Department of Communicative Disorders at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.Sara Howard is Senior Lecturer in Clinical Phonetics in the Department of Human Communication Sciences at the University of Sheffield.