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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Michel ParadisPublisher: HarperCollins Publishers Imprint: Brassey's (UK) Ltd Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.544kg ISBN: 9780080430652ISBN 10: 0080430651 Pages: 270 Publication Date: 23 July 1998 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction. The other side of language: pragmatic competence (M. Paradis). Impairment of Discourse. Pragmatic breakdown in patients with left and right brain damage: clinical implications (R.L. Bloom, L.K. Obler). Conversational abilities in patients with right hemisphere damage (Y. Chantraine et al.). Conversing in dementia: a conversation analytic approach (L. Perkins et al.). Discourse in fluent aphasia and Alzheimer's disease: linguistic and cognitive considerations (S. Bond Chapman et al.). Coherence and informativeness of discourse in two dementia types (M. Laine et al.). Other Pragmatic Deficits. Affective prosodic disturbance subsequent to right hemisphere stroke: a clinical application (R.T. Wertz et al.). The role of emotion in the linguistic and pragmatic aspects of aphasic performance (M. Perlman Lorch et al.). Literal vs. figurative meaning in patients with closed-head injury (K.L. Chobor, A. Schweiger). Shifting the burden to the interlocutor: compensation for pragmatic deficits in signers with Parkinson's disease (J. Kegl, H. Poizner). Pragmatics in frontal lobe dementia and primary progressive aphasia (J.B. Orange et al.). Compensatory Strategies. Pragmatics in the absence of verbal language: descriptions of a severe aphasic and a linguistically deprived adult (N.F. Dronkers et al.). The use of gestures as a compensatory strategy in adults with acquired aphasia compared to children with specific language impairment (B. Fex, A.-C. Mansson). Relationship between language impairment and pragmatic behavior in aphasic adults (J.A. Avent et al.). A cross language analysis of conversation in a trilingual speaker with aphasia (L. Springer et al.). Author index. Subject index.ReviewsSergio Zanini Pragmatics in Neurogenic Communication Disorders represents a valuable and important book for those who work in the field of pragmatics research because of the original studies included. Applied Linguistics This well-referenced book will be a useful resource for departmental libraries. In particular, readers with an interest in communication disorders following right hemisphere damage or dementia will find several papers of possible interest here. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics ...It provides an almost complete panorama on research in neurolinguistics of pragmatics... a valuable and important book for those who work in he field of pragmatics research. Brain Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |