Sociolinguistics, the study of the interaction of language and society, has had a major impact on linguistics for the last half-century. However, this prominent branch of the language sciences has had little contact with the field of communication disorders. Clinical Sociolinguistics, a collection of newly commissioned articles written by top scholars, is a major advance in bringing the two fields together. Part I includes chapters that outline findings from sociolinguistic research and point to the relevance of such findings for practicing speech-language pathologists. Topics discussed include bilingualism, code-switching, language planning, and a detailed look at African American English. Part II contains chapters that specifically demonstrate how these research paradigms can be applied to assessment, diagnosis, and treatment in the clinical situation.
Martin J. Ball is Hawthorne/Board of Regents Endowed Professor and Head of the Department of Communicative Disorders at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He is President of the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association, and editor of the journal Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics. His publications include Vowel Disorders )co-edited with Fiona Gibbon, 2002( and Methods in Clinical Phonetics )with Orla Lowry, 2001(.
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Malden, MA
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Blackwell Pub.
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2005
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xx, 335 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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Language in society
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36
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Includes bibliographical references )p. ]281[-319( and indexes
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ISBN: 1405112506
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edited by Martin J. Ball
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1
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Language, communities, networks and practices / David Britain and Kazuko Matsumoto -- Regional and social variation / Margaret Maclagan -- Language and gender / Jackie Guendouzi -- Bilingualism and multilingualism / John Edwards -- Code-switching and diglossia / Nicole Mغuller and Martin J. Ball -- Language and power / Jack S. Damico, Nina Simmons-Mackie and Holly Hawley -- Language and culture / Nicole Taylor and Norma Mendoza-Denton -- African american english / Walt Wolfram -- Language change / Dominic Watt and Jennifer Smith -- Language planning / Humphrey Tonkin -- Dialect perception and attitudes to variation / Dennis R. Preston and Gregory C. Robinson -- Acquisition of sociolinguistic variation / Julie Roberts -- Bi- and multilingual language acquisition / Zhu Hua and Li Wei -- Promising language assessment tools for children who speak a nonmainstream dialect of english / Janna B. Oetting -- Childhood bilingualism / Li Wei ... ]et al.[ -- Peech perception, hearing impairment and linguistic variation / Cynthia G. Clopper and David B. Pisoni -- Aphasia in multilingual populations / Martin R. Gitterman -- Designing assessments for multilinguals / Janet L. Patterson and Barbara L. Rodrعiguez -- Literacy as a sociolinguistic process for clinical purposes / Jack S. Damico, Ryan L. Nelson and Linda Bryan -- The sociolinguistics of sign languages / Ceil Lucas, Robert Bayley and Arlene Blumenthal Kelly -- Managing linguistic diversity in the clinic / Kim M. Isaac