Dorothy V M Bishop

Uncommon Understanding (Classic Edition)

Development and disorders of language comprehension in children

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is a 'classic edition' of Dorothy Bishop's award-winning textbook on the development of language comprehension, which has been in print since 1997, and now includes a new introduction from the author. The book won the British Psychological Society book award in 1999, and is now widely seen as a classic in the field of developmental language disorders.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 366
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9781848721494
• ISBN-10: 1848721498
• Artikelnr.: 36980249

Autorenporträt

Dorothy Bishop is Professor of Developmental Neuropsychology and a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow at the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the Classic Edition. Foreword. 1. From Sound to Meaning: A
Framework for Analysing Comprehension. 2. Specific Language Impairment. 3.
Speech Perception. 4. Understanding Word Meaning. 5. Grammatical Knowledge
in Sentence Comprehension. 6. Understanding Sentences in Real Time. 7.
Understanding Discourse: Integrating Language and Context. 8. Understanding
Intended Meaning: Social Aspects of Comprehension. 9. Modularity and
Interaction in Language Development and Disorders.