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Two viewpoints on pragmatics are of interest to the clinician and researcher: the various types of deficits of pragmatic competence in different neurogenic communication disorders on the one hand, and the use of pragmatic features as a compensatory strategy to supplement impaired linguistic competence on the other. Both are investigated in this volume. For the purpose of the book, ""pragmatics"" is understood to include not only discourse organization but also any inference from discourse, situational context, general knowledge, affective prosody and any paralinguistic phenomena used to derive an interpretation for any utterance. It therefore includes the use of metaphors, indirect speech acts, jokes, sarcasm, and any nonliteral interpretation. The reader should find information on pragmatic deficits subsequent to right hemisphere damage, pragmatic disorders in dementias, deficits in discourse organization in right and left hemisphere damaged patients, as well as on the use of pragmatic features by fluent and nonfluent aphasic patients.

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Sergio 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

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