1st Edition

Linguistics and Aphasia Psycholinguistic and Pragmatic Aspects of Intervention

By Ruth Lesser, Lesley Milroy Copyright 1993
396 Pages
by Routledge

396 Pages
by Routledge

400 Pages
by Routledge

Linguistics and Aphasia is a major study of recent developments in applying psycholinguistics and pragmatics to the study of acquired language disorders (aphasia) and their remediation. Psycholinguistic analyses of aphasia interpret disorders in terms of damaged modules and processes within what was once a normal language system. These analyses have progressed to the point that they now... Read more
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

Biography

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.