Clinical Sociolinguistics

by Ball, Martin J.

• ISBN13: 9781405112499
• ISBN10: 1405112492
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-08-19
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Sociolinguistics, the study of the interaction of language and society, has had a major impact on linguistics for the last half-century. However, this prominent branch of the language sciences has had little contact with the field of communication disorders. Clinical Sociolinguistics, a collection of newly commissioned articles written by top scholars, is a major advance in bringing the two fields together. Part I includes chapters that outline findings from sociolinguistic research and point to the relevance of such findings for practicing speech-language pathologists. Topics discussed include bilingualism, code-switching, language planning, and a detailed look at African American English. Part II contains chapters that specifically demonstrate how these research paradigms can be applied to assessment, diagnosis, and treatment in the clinical situation.

Author Biography

Martin J. Ball is Hawthorne/Board of Regents Endowed Professor and Head of the Department of Communicative Disorders at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He is President of the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association, and editor of the journal Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics. His publications include Vowel Disorders (co-edited with Fiona Gibbon, 2002) and Methods in Clinical Phonetics (with Orla Lowry, 2001).

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	vii
Foreword	xv
Loraine Obler
Preface	xix
Part I Sociolinguistic Research	1	(150)
Language, Communities, Networks and Practices	3	(12)
David Britain
Kazuko Matsumoto
Regional and Social Variation	15	(11)
Margaret Maclagan
Language and Gender	26	(10)
Jacqueline Guendouzi
Bilingualism and Multilingualism	36	(13)
John Edwards
Code-Switching and Diglossia	49	(14)
Nicole Muller
Martin J. Ball
Language and Power	63	(11)
Jack S. Damico
Nina Simmons-Mackie
Holly Hawley
Language and Culture	74	(13)
Nicole Taylor
Norma Mendoza-Denton
African American English	87	(14)
Walt Wolfram
Language Change	101	(19)
Dominic Watt
Jennifer Smith
Language Planning	120	(13)
Humphrey Tonkin
Dialect Perception and Attitudes to Variation	133	(18)
Dennis R. Preston
Gregory C. Robinson
Part II A Clinical Sociolinguistics	151	(130)
Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Variation	153	(12)
Julie Roberts
Bi-and Multilingual Language Acquisition	165	(15)
Zhu Hua
Li Wei
Assessing Language in Children Who Speak a Nonmainstream Dialect of English	180	(13)
Janna B. Oetting
Childhood Bilingualism: Distinguishing Difference from Disorder	193	(14)
Li Wei
Nick Miller
Barbara Dodd
Zhu Hua
Speech Perception, Hearing Impairment and Linguistic Variation	207	(12)
Cynthia G. Clopper
David B. Pisoni
Aphasia in Multilingual Populations	219	(11)
Martin R. Gitterman
Designing Assessments for Multilingual Children	230	(12)
Janet L. Patterson
Barbara L. Rodriguez
Literacy as a Sociolinguistic Process for Clinical Purposes	242	(8)
Jack S. Damico
Ryan L. Nelson
Linda Bryan
The Sociolinguistics of Sign Languages	250	(15)
Ceil Lucas
Robert Bayley
Arlene Blumenthal Kelly
Managing Linguistic Diversity in the Clinic: Interpreters in Speech-Language Pathology	265	(16)
Kim M. Isaac
References	281	(40)
Name Index	321	(9)
Subject Index	330