Overview
- Presents the most up-to-date research on pragmatic disorders in a range of clinical populations, including underresearched conditions such as congenital visual impairment and non-Alzheimer dementias
- Offers insights on the impact of pragmatic disorders on clients' communication skills by presenting conversational and linguistic data
- Examines the assessment and treatment of pragmatic disorders, and recent developments in the neuroanatomical and cognitive bases of these disorders
Part of the book series: Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology (PEPRPHPS, volume 11)
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Developmental Pragmatic Disorders
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Front Matter
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Acquired Pragmatic Disorders
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Front Matter
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Pragmatic Disorders in Other Populations
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Keywords
- Adult traumatic brain injury and cognition
- Autism spectrum disorder and communcation skills
- Childhood traumatic brain injury and pragmatics
- Cognitive pragmatics
- Communication impairment
- Congenital visual impairment and pragmatic disorders
- Pragmatic disorders
- Spina bifida, hydrocephalus, communication disorders
- cognitive bases of pragmatic impairments
- communication skills and impairment
- neuroanatomical bases of pragmatic disorders
- normal and abnormal pragmatic development
- pragmatics in emotional and behavioural disorders
- semantics and pragmatics
About this book
This is the first volume to present individual chapters on the full range of developmental and acquired pragmatic disorders in children and adults. In chapters that are accessible to students and researchers as well as clinicians, this volume introduces the reader to the different types of pragmatic disorders found in clinical populations as diverse as autism spectrum disorder, traumatic brain injury and right hemisphere language disorder. The volume also moves beyond these well-established populations to include conditions such as congenital visual impairment and non-Alzheimer dementias, in which there are also pragmatic impairments. Through the use of conversational and linguistic data, the reader can see how pragmatic disorders impact on the communication skills of the clients who have them. The assessment and treatment of pragmatic disorders are examined, and chapters also address recent developments in the neuroanatomical and cognitive bases of these disorders.
Reviews
“The book helps us to understand differences in pragmatic disorders between children and adults and the interventions that may be used to treat these clients. … it can be a really valuable resource for graduate and undergraduate students as well as clinicians and researchers. The book is strongly recommended to all those who are interested in clinical pragmatics and to those who want to carry out further research in this developing area.” (Caterina Scianna, International Review of Pragmatics, Vol. 10, 2018)
“Louise Cummings’s edited volume, Research in Clinical Pragmatics, is without doubt a timely and welcome contribution to the field. Besides being a very informative volume, it will also appeal to a wide readership. Although the book will appeal primarily to clinicians, the manner in which the contributors have explained and simplified specialised technical items has resulted in this volume being accessible to readers from different fields of inquiry and background knowledge.” (Vahid Parvaresh, Journal of Linguistics, August, 2017)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Research in Clinical Pragmatics
Editors: Louise Cummings
Series Title: Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47489-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-47487-8Published: 13 January 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83749-9Published: 17 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-47489-2Published: 05 January 2017
Series ISSN: 2214-3807
Series E-ISSN: 2214-3815
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 649
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations
Topics: Pragmatics, Educational Psychology, Psycholinguistics, Philosophy of Mind