Maria Black, Shula Chiat

Linguistics for Clinicians

A Practical Introduction

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Linguistics for Clinicians provides an introduction to linguistic analysis in the clinical context. The book draws on a range of linguistic theories and descriptions, equipping readers with a conceptual toolkit that will enable them to: Analyze data systematically, taking into account different types of linguistic properties Pick out significant patterns that can give them clinically relevant cues Build explicit arguments to back up their observations and hypotheses. Select relevant linguistic items for assessment and therapy tasks. Analytical tips are included to anticipate and deal with common problems of clinical application. Extensive exercises further illustrate the use of linguistic concepts in data analysis and task construction. Linguistics for Clinicians is primarily a linguistics textbook for students and teachers in clinical courses. It is also a useful resource for practicing clinicians, psycholinguistics students and researchers in language impairments.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 155mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 588g
• ISBN-13: 9780340758960
• ISBN-10: 0340758961
• Artikelnr.: 22246764

Autorenporträt

Maria Black, Shula Chiat

Inhaltsangabe

Language as a cognitive object and language as a social interaction
How to use this text and how to do clinical linguistics
Meaning and form in psycholinguistics
Syntax as a handle on interconnections between sounds and meanings
Syntactic tools
The semantics of scenes
Participants in scenes
Meaning tools
Putting together different perspectives
Temporal perspectives
Perspectives within perspectives.