E-raamat: Handbook of Clinical Linguistics illustrated edition [Wiley Online]

Sixty-two leading clinical linguists and phoneticians from around the world contribute 38 chapters covering the main areas of research in the application of linguistic science to the study of communication disability in the clinical setting. The material is organized according to different areas of linguistics rather than to different types of communication disorder: discourse, pragmatics and sociolinguistics; syntax and semantics; and phonetics and phonology. The text includes discussion of a range of pathologies, both developmental and acquired, in each chapter, and commentary by individual authors on the actual or potential influence of their specialist areas on mainstream theories and descriptions of language. For students, instructors, researchers, and practitioners of speech-language pathology, linguistics, psychology, and education. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

The Handbook of Clinical Linguistics is an original, in-depth survey of the field for students and practitioners of speech-language pathology, linguistics, psychology, and education.

• Brings together an international team of contributors to create an original and in-depth survey of this multi-faceted field
  
• 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-linguistics 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.