Date: 09-Jan-2008 From: Daniel Davies <ddaviescambridge.org> Subject: Pragmatic Impairment: Perkins E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Pragmatic Impairment
Published: 2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
http://us.cambridge.org
Author: Michael R. Perkins
Hardback: ISBN: 9780521790703 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 55.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9780521790703 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 105.00
Abstract:
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 book not only provides a novel and clinically useful account of pragmatic impairment, but it also throws new 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 the first book on this topic to be 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.
1. Introduction; 2. Pragmatic theory and pragmatic impairment; 3. Pragmatics and modularity: components, dissociations and associations; 4. Pragmatic ability and disability: an emergentist model; 5. Cognition and pragmatics; 6. Language and pragmatics; 7. Sensorimotor systems and pragmatics; 8. Compensatory adaptation; 9. Conclusions.
Linguistic Field(s):
Applied Linguistics
Pragmatics
Psycholinguistics
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