When Language Breaks Down - Analysing Discourse in Clinical Contexts

Informationen zum Autor Elissa D. Asp is Associate Professor of English Linguistics in the English Department and Linguistics Coordinator of the Linguistics Program at Saint Mary's University. She is also Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at Dalhousie University. Jessica de Villiers is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of British Columbia. Klappentext Presents new models for describing and analysing language in degenerative (Alzheimer's) and developmental (autism spectrum) disorders. Zusammenfassung Presents new models for comprehensively describing discourse specifically in clinical contexts! illustrating these models with detailed analyses of discourse patterns associated with degenerative (Alzheimer's) and developmental (autism spectrum) disorders. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Introduction to clinical discourse analysis; 2. Theoretical and clinical contexts; 3. Conversation analysis and intonation in English; 4. Grammar; 5. Contexts of culture, context of situation and phase; 6. Study design; 7. Differential diagnosis and monitoring; 8. Cognitive models, inferencing, and affect; 9. Modelling information across domains; Closings remarks.

Product details

• Authors: Elissa D. Asp, Elissa D. Villiers Asp, Asp Elissa D., Jessica de Villiers, Jessica de Villiers
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.02.2010
• EAN: 9780521718240
• ISBN: 978-0-521-71824-0
• No. of pages: 270
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine; Medicine, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Neurosciences, doctor/patient relationship, Historical & comparative linguistics, Speech and language disorders and therapy, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Doctor / patient relationship