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Name:	Louise  Cummings
Institution:	Nottingham Trent University
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Homepage:	http://www.ntu.ac.uk/apps/Profiles/58116-3-2/Dr_Louise_Cummings.aspx
State and/or Country:	United Kingdom
Linguistic Field(s):	Pragmatics
Specialty:	Pragmatics and Clinical Linguistics
Selected Publications:	1. Books Cummings, L. (2005). Pragmatics: A Multidisciplinary Perspective. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Cummings, L. (2008). Clinical Linguistics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Cummings, L. (2009). Clinical Pragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Cummings, L. (ed.)(2010). The Pragmatics Encyclopedia. London: Routledge. Cummings, L. (2010). Rethinking the BSE Crisis: A Study of Scientific Reasoning under Uncertainty. Dordrecht: Springer. Cummings, L. (ed.) (2013) The Cambridge Handbook of Communication Disorders, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2. Journal Articles Cummings, L. (2004). Analogical Reasoning as a Tool of Epidemiological Investigation. Argumentation, Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 427-444. Cummings, L. (2005a). Interpreting Putnam’s Dialectical Method in Philosophy. Metaphilosophy, Vol. 36, No. 4, pp. 476-89. Cummings, L. (2005b). Giving Science a Bad Name: Politically and Commercially Motivated Fallacies in BSE Inquiry. Argumentation, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 123-143. Cummings, L. (2007a). Introduction: Pragmatics and Adult Language Disorders. Seminars in Speech and Language, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 95-97. Cummings, L. (2007b). Pragmatics and Adult Language Disorders: Past Achievements and Future Directions. Seminars in Speech and Language, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 98-112. Cummings, L. (2009). Emerging Infectious Diseases: Coping with Uncertainty. Argumentation, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 171-188. Cummings, L. (2011a) ‘Considering risk assessment up close: The case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy’, Health, Risk & Society, 13 (3): 255-275. Cummings, L. (2011b) ‘Pragmatic disorders and their social impact’, Pragmatics and Society, 2 (1): 17-36. Cummings, L. (2012a) ‘Theorising in pragmatics: Commentary on Bara’s Cognitive Pragmatics: The Mental Processes of Communication (MIT Press, 2010)’, Intercultural Pragmatics, 9 (1): 113-120. Cummings, L. (2012b) ‘The contribution of informal logic to public health’, Perspectives in Public Health, 132 (2): 66-67. Cummings, L. (2012c) ‘Scaring the public: Fear appeal arguments in public health reasoning’, Informal Logic, 32 (1): 25-50. Cummings, L. (2012d) ‘The public health scientist as informal logician’, International Journal of Public Health, 57 (3): 649-650. Cummings, L. (2012e) ‘Establishing diagnostic criteria: The role of clinical pragmatics’, Lodz Papers in Pragmatics, 8 (1): 61-84. Cummings, L. (2013a) ‘Clinical linguistics: A primer’, International Journal of Language Studies, 7 (2): 1-30. Cummings, L. (2013b) ‘Clinical linguistics: State of the art’, International Journal of Language Studies, 7 (3): 1-32. 3. Book Chapters Cummings, L. (2012a) ‘Pragmatic disorders’, in H.-J. Schmid (ed.) Cognitive Pragmatics [Handbook of Pragmatics, Vol. 4], Berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 291-315. Cummings, L. (2012b) ‘Theorising context: The case of clinical pragmatics’, in R. Finkbeiner, J. Meibauer & P. Schumacher (eds), What is Context? Theoretical and Experimental Evidence, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 55-80. 4. Online Publications Cummings, L. (2013) ‘Pragmatic disorders’, in J.H. Stone & M. Blouin (eds), International Encyclopedia of Rehabilitation. Available online: http://cirrie.buffalo.edu/encyclopedia/en/article/363/
Announced on LINGUIST :	Pragmatics  Clinical Linguistics  Clinical Pragmatics  The Routledge Pragmatics Encyclopedia
Reviewed on LINGUIST :	Clinical Linguistics
Courses Taught:	Semantics Pragmatics Clinical Linguistics Clinical Pragmatics Communication Disorders
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