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Clinical Sociolinguistics
Ball
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Description for Clinical Sociolinguistics
Hardcover. Clinical Sociolinguistics examines how sociolinguistic research paradigms can be applied to assessment, diagnosis and treatment in the clinical situation. Editor(s): Ball, Martin J. Series: Language in Society. Num Pages: 360 pages, 27. BIC Classification: MMZL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 167 x 25. Weight in Grams: 684.
Clinical Sociolinguistics examines how sociolinguistic research paradigms can be applied to assessment, diagnosis and treatment in the clinical situation.
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
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Series
Language in Society
Number of Pages
356
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United States
ISBN
9781405112499
SKU
V9781405112499
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Ref
99-50
About Ball
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Clinical Sociolinguistics
“Individuals acquire language, and lose it, in a variety of contexts. Gender, geography, socioeconomic status and bilingualism are all relevant to clinical reasoning about speech and language disorders. This timely volume is grounded in state-of-the art sociolinguistic research, but also demonstrates the application of sociolinguistic thinking to the clinical situation. It will be an invaluable text for those professionals faced ... Read more