Integrating the Participants' Perspective in the Study of Language and Communication Disorders: Towards a New Analytical Approach

By Charlotte Marie Bisgaard Klemmensen

This book presents a new analytical approach that will advance the establishment of a new discourse within the study of language and communication disorders. Instances of recurring aphasia and acquired brain injury are discussed in an empirical observation study through a theoretical lens that combines Integrational Linguistics, ethnomethodology, Conversation Analysis and practice theory. In doing so, this interdisciplinary analysis adds a person-centered perspective to existing ethnographic approaches. It addresses a significant gap in our understanding of the social/communicative/interactional consequences of brain injury for everyday life by focusing on the practical problems that individuals with communication difficulties and acquired brain damage - and their care-takers, family and friends - have to solve in everyday life, and how they solve them. This innovative work will appeal to health and social care practitioners and care-givers, in addition to scholars of health communication, cognitive, psycho- and sociolinguistics.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319786334
• ISBN13: 9783319786339
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Length: 155 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"