In linguistic terms "pragmatics" covers the whole area of language use and communication in action. It includes the way in which language, gestures and other signals used in everyday situations are applied to patients suffering with impaired communication. This book explores the changes which have taken place over the past 20 years in the study of language and communication. Discourse analysis and pragmatics provide a way of exploring communication success and failure and are important concepts for health care professionals working with communication disability. The text relates discourse analysis and pragmatics to the study of speech pathology and the practice of speech therapy. A practical book, it offers guidance to thos working with the language handicapped and includes ideas tested in clinical settings. Case studies and examples are used throughout. This book should be a valuable source of information for undergraduate and graduate students of speech pathology, clinicians and researchers, special needs teachers and psychologists and anyone with an interest in communicative ability/disability.
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Part 1 Exploring communication: language and communication; intention in communication; unintentionality and coversational principles; interior and exterior communication. Part 2 Pragmatics, discourse analysis and clinical pragmatics: pragmatics; semiotics and pragmatics; discourse and discourse analysis; clinical pragmatics; relevance to speech pathology and therapy. Part 3 Analyzing discourse: speech acts; exchange structure; opening-middle-closing sequences; metacommunication; discourse analysis of clinical interaction; turn taking; cohesion; coherence; informativity; communication strategies. Part 4 Issues in clinical pragmatics: identification of communicative behaviours; appropriateness vs. inappropriateness; examples - contextual influences on children's repair and clarification; incohesion in discourse; interaction of linguistic levels. Part 5 Disturbance of pragmatic functioning: literature review; the pragmatic component of communicative competence; aspects of pragmatic "knowing that"; influences bearing upon the pragmatic component; pragmatic knowledge and severity of disturbance; semantic-pragmatic disorder?; pragmatic continuum; issue of diagnosis. Part 6 Pragmatic assessment: issues in sampling; issue in analysis and interpretation; frameworks for assessment; overview of pragmatic assessment protocols. Part 7 Issues in treatment: effectiveness and limitations of established methods; accountability; attitudes to disability; attitudes to the young and old; knowledge and belief concerning learning and behavioural change; impaired performance vs. disability; generalization; high-quality interactions; "Top-Down" vs. "Bottom-Up" approaches; principles for pragmatic-based therapy. Part 8 Clinical examples: Simon; John and David; chronological data; Peter. Part 9 Administrative considerations: current practice in USA and UK; the needs of clients; the needs of professionals; showing results; accountability; support for pragmatically based therapy; summary and recommendations.
