Clinical Sociolinguistics

by Ball, Martin J.

• ISBN13: 9781405112505
• ISBN10: 1405112506
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• 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	p. vii
Foreword	p. xv
Preface	p. xix
Sociolinguistic Research	p. 1
Language, Communities, Networks and Practices	p. 3
Regional and Social Variation	p. 15
Language and Gender	p. 26
Bilingualism and Multilingualism	p. 36
Code-Switching and Diglossia	p. 49
Language and Power	p. 63
Language and Culture	p. 74
African American English	p. 87
Language Change	p. 101
Language Planning	p. 120
Dialect Perception and Attitudes to Variation	p. 133
A Clinical Sociolinguistics	p. 151
Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Variation	p. 153
Bi- and Multilingual Language Acquisition	p. 165
Assessing Language in Children Who Speak a Nonmainstream Dialect of English	p. 180
Childhood Bilingualism: Distinguishing Difference from Disorder	p. 193
Speech Perception, Hearing Impairment and Linguistic Variation	p. 207
Aphasia in Multilingual Populations	p. 219
Designing Assessments for Multilingual Children	p. 230
Literacy as a Sociolinguistic Process for Clinical Purposes	p. 242
The Sociolinguistics of Sign Languages	p. 250
Managing Linguistic Diversity in the Clinic: Interpreters in Speech-Language Pathology	p. 265
References	p. 281
Name Index	p. 321
Subject Index	p. 330
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