Handbook of Communication Competence

In our everyday life, communicative processes are relevant in almost all situations. It is important to know whether you should say something which is adequate in the situation or whether it is better to say nothing at all. Communicative competence is fundamental for a successful life in our society as it is of great importance for all areas of life. Therefore, it is not surprising that communicative competence is the subject of many theoretical and empirical approaches and, in consequence, research on this topic is diverse. We focus our contributions on linguistic aspects of communication. In the centre of interest are linguistic oriented performances of different forms of communicative competence, language acquisition, and language disorders. The topics of this book concern the description of methods for studying language in the brain, the interaction between language and cognition, discourse acquisition of children, literacy acquisition and its precursors, the use and acquisition of the sign language, models and training of writing and reading, nonverbal communicative competence, media competence, communication training, developmental dyslexia, the treatment of stuttering, and the description of language disorders.

Autorentext

Gert Rickheit & Hans Strohner, University of Bielefeld, Germany.

Inhalt

HAL 1 -Handbook of Individual Communication Competence
Table of Contents

I. FOUNDATIONS

1. The Concept of Communicative Competence
   Gert Rickheit/ Hans Strohner Constanze Vorwerg

   II. ACQUISITION

2. Language and Neurophysiological Development
   Ralph-Axel Mueller, Erica Palmer
   3. Cognitive Foundations
   Katharina J. Rohlfing
   4. First Utterances
   Holly L. Storkel
   5. Discourse Acquisition
   Clair Pond, Michael Siegal
   6. Literacy Acquisition and Its Precursors
   Pekka Niemi
   7. Sign Language Acquisition
   Vivian Raithel

   III. ADULT COMPETENCE

3. Speaking and Listening
   Thomas Holtgraves
   9. Writing and Reading
   Elke Prestin
   10. Nonverbal Communication Competence
   Nancy M. Puccinelli
   11. Media Competence
   Daniel Perrin, Maureen Ehrensberger

   IV. COMPETENCE TRAINING

4. Communication Training
   Annette Lepschy
   13. Coping with the Needs of Presentation
   Mike Allen, Nancy Burrell, John Bourhis
   14. Training of Writing and Reading
   Eva-Maria Jakobs, Daniel Perrin

   V. LANGUAGE THERAPY

5. Developmental dyslexia: A Developmental Neurolinguistic Approach
   Virginia W. Berninger, William Nagy, Todd Richards, Wendy Raskind
   16. Language disorders
   Martina Hielscher-Fastabend
   17. The Nature and Treatment of Stuttering
   Ashley Craig