analysing discourse in clinical contexts Asp, Elissa D. creator Villiers, Jessica de. text bibliography nyu New York Cambridge University Press 2010 monographic eng

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ix, 259 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. "Doctors, nurses, and other caregivers often know what people with Alzheimer's disease or Asperger's 'sound like' - that is they recognise patterns in people's discourse, from sounds and silences, to words, sentences and story structures. Such discourse patterns may inform their clinical judgements and affect the decisions they make. However, this knowledge is often tacit, like recognising a regional accent without knowing how to describe its features. This is the first book to present models for comprehensively describing discourse specifically in clinical contexts and to illustrate models with detailed analyses of discourse patterns associated with degenerative (Alzheimer's) and developmental (autism spectrum) disorders. The book is aimed not only at advanced students and researchers in linguistics, discourse analysis, speech pathology and clinical psychology but also at researchers, clinicians and caregivers for whom explicit knowledge of discourse patterns might be helpful"--Provided by publisher. Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Introduction to clinical discourse analysis; 2. Theoretical and clinical contexts; 3. Conversation analysis and intonation in English; 4. Grammar; 5. Contexts of culture, context of situation and phase; 6. Study design; 7. Differential diagnosis and monitoring; 8. Cognitive models, inferencing, and affect; 9. Modelling information across domains; Closings remarks. Elissa D. Asp, Jessica de Villiers. Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-248) and index. Language disorders Discourse analysis Alzheimer's disease Patients Language Autism spectrum disorders Patients Language RC423 .A82 2010 616.855 ASP V 9780521889780 (hardback) 0521889782 (hardback) 2009044694 http://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/89780/cover/9780521889780.jpg http://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/89780/cover/9780521889780.jpg DLC 091023 20191003172606.0 15957366