Pragmatic Disorders by Louise Cummings

Pragmatic Disorders by Louise Cummings

This wide-ranging survey of the state of the art in clinical pragmatics includes an examination of pragmatic disorders in previously neglected populations such as juvenile offenders, children and adults with emotional and behavioural disorders, and adults with non-Alzheimer dementias.

“Seeing that in recent years the field of clinical pragmatics has undergone significant changes as a healthy line of research within clinical language studies, Louise Cummings’s Pragmatic disorders is a timely and welcome contribution to the field… Besides being a very informative volume, the book suggests points of departure for further research in the field. The book has indeed made the study of pragmatic disorders more innovative.” (Vahid Parvaresh, Intercultural Pragmatics, Vol. 13 (2), 2016)

“Pragmatic Disorders is a thought-provoking piece, which highlights new challenges for the field. … Cummings’s book is also intended as a balanced introduction to the theoretical and cognitive correlates of research in clinical pragmatics … . Pragmatic Disorders is an interesting source of data and ideas for researchers working in clinical and/or experimental pragmatics.” (Mikhail Kissine, Journal of Pragmatics, Vol. 80, 2015)

“Louise Cummings integrates her knowledge of pragmatics with a clinical perspective; the result is an excellent survey of a relatively new interdisciplinary research area which is only just beginning to take shape. … readers eager to engage in more in-depth studies will find it useful to turn to research on grammatically coded pragmatic meanings as it is found in the linguistically oriented pragmatic literature, the richness of which prohibits its inclusion into a survey of this kind.” (Charlotte Petersen, Pragmatics and Society, Vol. 6 (2), 2015)

Louise Cummings is Professor of Linguistics at Nottingham Trent University, UK. She is the author of Pragmatics (2005), Clinical Linguistics (2008), Clinical Pragmatics (2009) and Rethinking the BSE Crisis (2010). She has been editor of The Routledge Pragmatics Encyclopedia (2010) and the Cambridge Handbook of Communication Disorders (2013). She has been a Visiting Fellow at Harvard and Cambridge Universities. As well as a member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists, she is also registered with the Health and Care Professions Council, UK.

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ISBN 13	9789400779532
ISBN 10	9400779534
Title	Pragmatic Disorders
Author	Louise Cummings
Series	Perspectives In Pragmatics Philosophy And Psychology Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Springer
Year published	2014-01-22
Number of pages	255
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