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Part of the "Language in Social Life" series, this text examines linguistics and aphasia and the psycholinguistic and pragmatic aspects of intervention. Amongst areas covered are the clinical background to aphasia, functional communication strategies and control processes in sentence production.
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General Editor's Preface
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Part I: Background
1. Introduction
2. Aphasia - the clinical background
Part II: Models and Methods
3. Applying linguistics in aphasia research and therapy
4. Psycholinguistic models, lexical processing
5. Psycholinguistic models, sentence processing
6. Pragmatics, theoretical issues
7. Coherence in discourse
8. The structure of conversation
9. Conversation as a collaborative achievement: some conversational management procedures
Part III: Implications and Applications
10. Applying psycholinguistics to intervention: some preliminary considerations
11. Applying psycholinguistics to intervention: some clinical studies
12. Applying pragmatics in intervention
13. Contrast and complement: some concluding remarks
References
Index
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Ruth Lesser is Emeritus Professor at Newcastle University.
Lesley Milroy is Visiting Professor at University of York and Professor Emerita at the University of Michigan.
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Part of the "Language in Social Life" series, this text examines linguistics and aphasia and the psycholinguistic and pragmatic aspects of intervention. Amongst areas covered are the clinical background to aphasia, functional communication strategies and control processes in sentence production.
