Martin J. Ball 
Clinical Sociolinguistics [PDF ebook] 

Clinical Sociolinguistics examines how sociolinguistic
research paradigms can be applied to assessment, diagnosis and
treatment in the clinical situation.

* fills gap in the literature for speech-language pathologists by
addressing how sociolinguistic research paradigms can be applied to
assessment, diagnosis and treatment in the clinical situation

* collects newly commissioned articles written by top scholars in
the field

* includes chapters that outline findings from sociolinguistic
research over the last 40 years and point to the relevance of such
findings for practicing speech-language pathologists

* discusses topics including bilingualism, code-switching,
language planning, and African-American English

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors.

Foreword.

Loraine Obler.

Preface.

Part 1: Sociolinguistic Research:.

1. Language, communities, networks and practices: David Britain
(Essex University) & Kaz Matsumoto(University of Tokyo,
Japan).

2. Regional and social variation: Margaret Maclagan (University
of Canterbury, New Zealand).

3. Language and gender: Jackie Guendouzi (University of South
Alabama).

4. Bilingualism and multilingualism: John Edwards (St. Francis
Xavier University).

5. Code-switching and Diglossia: Nicole Müller and Martin
J. Ball (both University of Louisiana, Lafayette).

6. Language and Power: Jack Damico (University of Louisiana,
Lafayette), Nina Simmons-Mackie (Louisiana University), and Holly
Hawley (University of Louisiana, Lafayette).

7. Language and Culture: Nicole Taylor and Norma Mendoza-Denton
(both University of Arizona).

8. African-American English: Walt Wolfram (North Carolina State
University).

9. Language Change: Dominic Watt (University of Aberdeen,
Scotland) and Jennifer Smith (University of York).

10. Language Planning: Humphrey Tonkin (University of
Hartford).

11. Dialect perception and attitudes to variation: Dennis
Preston and Gregory C. Robinson (both Michigan State
University).

Part 2: A Clinical Sociolinguistics:.

12. Acquisition of sociolinguistic variation: Julie Roberts
(University of Vermont).

13. Bi- and multilingual language acquisition: Zhu Hua and Li
Wei (both University of Newcastle).

14. Assessing Language in Children who Speak a Nonmainstream
Dialect of English: Janna Oetting (Louisiana State University).

15. Childhood Bilingualism: distinguishing difference from
disorder: Li Wei, Nik Miller, Barbara Dodd and Zhu Hua (all
University of Newcastle).

16. Speech Perception, Hearing Impairment, and Linguistic
Variation: Cynthia Clopper & David Pisoni (both Indiana
University).

17. Aphasia in multilingual populations: Martin Gitterman (City
University of New York).

18. Designing assessment materials for multilinguals: Janet
Patterson and Barbara Rodríguez (both University of New
Mexico).

19. Literacy as a sociolinguistic process for Clinical Purposes:
Jack Damico (University of Louisiana, Lafayette), Ryan Nelson
(University of Texas, El Paso), and Linda Bryan (University of
Louisiana, Monroe).

20. The Sociolinguistics of sign languages: Ceil Lucas
(Gallaudet University), Robert Bayley (University of Texas, San
Antonio), and Arlene Blumenthal Kelly (Gallaudet University).

21. Managing linguistic diversity in the clinic: interpreters in
speech-language pathology: Kim Isaac (University of Newcastle,
Australia).

References.

Name Index.

Subject Index.

Über den Autor

Martin J. Ball is Hawthorne/Board of Regents Endowed Professor and Head of the Department of Communicative Disorders at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He is President of the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association, and editor of the journal Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics. His publications include Vowel Disorders (co-edited with Fiona Gibbon, 2002) and Methods in Clinical Phonetics (with Orla Lowry, 2001).