Pragmatic Impairment - Hardcover

Perkins, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521790700 ISBN 13: 9780521790703

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Pragmatics - the way we communicate using more than just language - is particularly problematic for people with speech disorders. Through an extensive analysis of how pragmatics can go wrong, this 2007 book not only provides a clinically useful account of pragmatic impairment, but it also throws light on how pragmatics functions in healthy individuals. Michael Perkins brings mainstream and clinical pragmatics together by showing that not only can our understanding of pragmatics be aided by the study of pragmatic impairment, but that clinical and theoretical pragmatics are better served by treating pragmatic ability and disability within a single framework. It is a comprehensive book aimed primarily at linguists and psycholinguists rather than clinicians, and includes illustrative material on conditions such as autism and aphasia and a wide range of other communication disorders in both children and adults.

About this title

Book Description:

Pragmatics - the way we communicate using more than just language - is particularly problematic for people with speech disorders. This 2007 book not only provides a clinically useful account of pragmatic impairment, but it also throws light on how pragmatics functions in healthy individuals.

About the Author:

Michael R. Perkins is Professor of Clinical Linguistics in the Department of Human Communication Sciences at the University of Sheffield.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0521790700
• ISBN 13: 9780521790703
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 244