Clinical Sociolinguistics (eBook)

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).

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.

"Individuals acquire language, and lose it, in a variety of
contexts. Gender, geography, socioeconomic status and bilingualism
are all relevant to clinical reasoning about speech and language
disorders. This timely volume is grounded in state-of-the art
sociolinguistic research, but also demonstrates the application of
sociolinguistic thinking to the clinical situation. It will be an
invaluable text for those professionals faced with linguistically
and culturally diverse client groups, and for students and
researchers in communication disorders." Paul Fletcher,
University College Cork