Integrating the Participants' Perspective in the Study of Language and Communication Disorders

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.

Considers the consequences of communication difficulties and acquired brain damage in everyday practices by taking a cross-disciplinary approach Uses a unique approach combining language psychology, discursive psychology and multimodal ethnomethodology Offers an understanding of inclusion and exclusion as situated practices in environments where some participants have limited or unusual communicative resources

Autorentext
Charlotte Marie Bisgaard Klemmensen is a researcher in Communication and Psychology at Aalborg University, Denmark.

Inhalt
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Language and communication: the contexualized and 'person-centered' nature of linguistic and communicative action.- Chapter 3: Language and communication disorders as an area of study.- Chapter 4: Meaning: towards a person-centered approach.- Chapter 5: Introduction to the preliminary framework of a new analytical perspective.- Chapter 6: Probing the new analytical perspective.- Chapter 7: Conclusion.