When language breaks down : analysing discourse in clinical contexts / Elissa D. Asp, Jessica de Villiers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Asp, Elissa D., author.

Villiers, Jessica de, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language disorders.

Discourse analysis.

Alzheimer's disease--Patients--Language.

Alzheimer's disease.

Autism spectrum disorders--Patients--Language.

Autism spectrum disorders.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 259 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Doctors, nurses, and other caregivers often know what people with Alzheimer's disease or Asperger's 'sound like' - that is they recognise patterns in people's discourse, from sounds and silences, to words, sentences and story structures. Such discourse patterns may inform their clinical judgements and affect the decisions they make. However, this knowledge is often tacit, like recognising a regional accent without knowing how to describe its features. This is the first book to present models for comprehensively describing discourse specifically in clinical contexts and to illustrate models with detailed analyses of discourse patterns associated with degenerative (Alzheimer's) and developmental (autism spectrum) disorders. The book is aimed not only at advanced students and researchers in linguistics, discourse analysis, speech pathology and clinical psychology but also at researchers, clinicians and caregivers for whom explicit knowledge of discourse patterns might be helpful.

Contents:

Introduction to clinical discourse analysis;

Theoretical and clinical contexts

Conversation analysis and intonation in English

Grammar

Contexts of culture, context of situation and phase

Study design

Differential diagnosis and monitoring

Cognitive models, inferencing, and affect

Modelling information across domains

Closing remarks.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

ISBN:

1-107-21195-6

1-282-53903-5

9786612539039

0-511-84535-9

0-511-67894-0

0-511-68217-4

0-511-67769-3

0-511-68415-0

0-511-68019-8

OCLC:

609860290