| Conversation and Brain Damage [With CDROM] Contributor(s): Goodwin, Charles (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0195129539 ISBN-13: 9780195129533 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $222.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2003 Annotation: How do people with brain damage communicate? How does the partial or total loss of the ability to speak and use language fluently manifest itself in actual conversation? How are people with brain damage able to expand their cognitive ability through interaction with others - and how do these discursive activities in turn influence cognition? This groundbreaking collection of new articles examines the ways in which aphasia and other neurological deficits lead to language impairments that shape the production, reception and processing of language. Edited by noted linguistic anthropologist Charles Goodwin and with contributions from a wide range of international scholars, the articles provide a pragmatic and interactive perspective on the types of challenges that face aphasic speakers in any given act of communication. Conversation and Brain Damage will be invaluable to linguists, discourse analysts, linguistic and medical anthropologists, speech therapists, neurologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, workers in mental health care and in public health, sociologists, and readers interested in the long-term implications of brain damage. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Neuropsychology - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General - Medical | Neurology |
| Dewey: 616.855 |
| LCCN: 2001052100 |
| Lexile Measure: 1470 |
| Physical Information: 1.01" H x 6.18" W x 9.44" (1.43 lbs) 328 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: How do people with brain damage communicate? How does the partial or total loss of the ability to speak and use language fluently manifest itself in actual conversation? How are people with brain damage able to expand their cognitive ability through interaction with others - and how do these discursive activities in turn influence cognition? This groundbreaking collection of new articles examines the ways in which aphasia and other neurological deficits lead to language impairments that shape the production, reception and processing of language. Edited by noted linguistic anthropologist Charles Goodwin and with contributions from a wide range of international scholars, the articles provide a pragmatic and interactive perspective on the types of challenges that face aphasic speakers in any given act of communication. Conversation and Brain Damage will be invaluable to linguists, discourse analysts, linguistic and medical anthropologists, speech therapists, neurologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, workers in mental health care and in public health, sociologists, and readers interested in the long-term implications of brain damage. |