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

Klemmensen, Charlotte Marie Bisgaard

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Pivot

Publication Date: 2018-04-18

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783319786339

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-78634-6

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 155