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The Handbook of Clinical Linguistics

Series: Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
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The Handbook of Clinical Linguistics offers a comprehensive and original exploration of clinical linguistics, demonstrating how linguistic principles apply to language disabilities across various pathologies. The volume highlights multilingual and cross-linguistic perspectives, analytical methods, and assessments, showing how mainstream language theories have evolved through clinical research.
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This book is ideal for postgraduate students, researchers, and practitioners in speech-language pathology, linguistics, psychology, education, and related health sciences seeking a thorough, research-informed understanding of language disabilities.

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The Handbook of Clinical Linguistics brings together an international team of contributors to produce an original and in-depth survey of this multi-faceted field. It fills a gap in the existing literature as the first non-encyclopedic volume to provide comprehensive, up to date coverage of this ever-expanding area of linguistics.

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The Handbook of Clinical Linguistics brings together an international team of contributors to create an original, in-depth survey of the field for students and practitioners of speech-language pathology, linguistics, psychology, and education.

Explores the field of clinical linguistics: the application of the principles and methods of linguistics to the study of language disability in all its forms.

Fills a gap in the existing literature, creating the first non-encyclopedic volume to explore this ever-expanding area of linguistic concern and research.

Includes a range of pathologies, with each section exploring multilingual and cross-linguistic aspects of the field, as well as analytical methods and assessment.

Describes how mainstream theories and descriptions of language have been influenced by clinical research.

Series: Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics

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Praised by experts like David Crystal and Paul Fletcher, this volume is recognised as a landmark work in clinical linguistics, showcasing advances over three decades. Sharynne McLeod calls it a classic reference featuring leading international authorities, while Ben Maassen recommends it as essential reading for students and professionals across speech-language pathology, medicine, and psychology.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781444338775

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 10 December 2010

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell

Contributors:

  • Edited by Martin J. Ball
  • Edited by Nicole Müller
  • Edited by Michael R. Perkins
  • Edited by Sara Howard
  • Edited by Martin J. Ball
  • Edited by Martin J. Ball

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 38.0mm

Width: 173.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 1229g

Pages: 712

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About the Author

Martin J. Ball is Hawthorne Endowed Professor and Head ofthe Department of Communicative Disorders at the University ofLouisiana at Lafayette. Michael R. Perkins is Professor of Clinical Linguisticsin the Department of Human Communication Sciences at the Universityof Sheffield, England. Nicole Muller is Hawthorne-BoRSF Endowed Professorin the Department of Communicative Disorders at the University ofLouisiana at Lafayette. Sara Howard is Senior Lecturer in Clinical Phonetics inthe Department of Human Communication Sciences at the University ofSheffield.

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