Clinical Sociolinguistics

by Editor: Martin J. Ball (University of Ulster)

• ISBN13: 9781405141383
• ISBN10: 1405141387
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2008-04-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Clinical Sociolinguistics examines how sociolinguistic research paradigms can be applied to assessment, diagnosis and treatment in the clinical situation. fills gap in the literature for speech-language pathologists by addressing how sociolinguistic research paradigms can be applied to assessment, diagnosis and treatment in the clinical situation collects newly commissioned articles written by top scholars in the field includes chapters that outline findings from sociolinguistic research over the last 40 years and point to the relevance of such findings for practicing speech-language pathologists discusses topics including bilingualism, code-switching, language planning, and African-American English

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors

Foreword

Loraine Obler

Preface

Sociolinguistic Research:

Language, communities, networks and practices

Regional and social variation

Language and gender

Bilingualism and multilingualism

Code-switching and Diglossia

Language and Power

Language and Culture

African-American English

Language Change

Language Planning

Dialect perception and attitudes to variation

A Clinical Sociolinguistics:

Acquisition of sociolinguistic variation

Bi- and multilingual language acquisition

Assessing Language in Children who Speak a Nonmainstream Dialect of English

Childhood Bilingualism: distinguishing difference from disorder

Speech Perception, Hearing Impairment, and Linguistic Variation

Aphasia in multilingual populations

Designing assessment materials for multilinguals

Literacy as a sociolinguistic process for Clinical Purposes

The Sociolinguistics of sign languages

Managing linguistic diversity in the clinic: interpreters in speech-language pathology

References

Name Index

Subject Index

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