Clinical sociolinguistics /

Sociolinguistics, the study of the interaction of language and society, has had a major impact on linguistics for the last half-century. However, this prominent branch of the language sciences has had little contact with the field of communication disorders. Clinical Sociolinguistics, a collection of newly commissioned articles written by top scholars, is a major advance in bringing the two fields together. Part I includes chapters that outline findings from sociolinguistic research and point to the relevance of such findings for practicing speech-language pathologists. Topics discussed include bilingualism, code-switching, language planning, and a detailed look at African American English. Part II contains chapters that specifically demonstrate how these research paradigms can be applied to assessment, diagnosis, and treatment in the clinical situation. -- Bokk jacket.Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-319) and indexes.Language, communities, networks and practices / David Britain and Kazuko Matsumoto -- Regional and social variation / Margaret Maclagan -- Language and gender / Jackie Guendouzi -- Bilingualism and multilingualism / John Edwards -- Code-switching and diglossia / Nicole Müller and Martin J. Ball -- Language and power / Jack S. Damico, Nina Simmons-Mackie and Holly Hawley -- Language and culture / Nicole Taylor and Norma Mendoza-Denton -- African american english / Walt Wolfram -- Language change / Dominic Watt and Jennifer Smith -- Language planning / Humphrey Tonkin -- Dialect perception and attitudes to variation / Dennis R. Preston and Gregory C. Robinson -- Acquisition of sociolinguistic variation / Julie Roberts -- Bi- and multilingual language acquisition / Zhu Hua and Li Wei -- Promising language assessment tools for children who speak a nonmainstream dialect of english / Janna B. Oetting -- Childhood bilingualism / Li Wei [and others] -- Peech perception, hearing impairment and linguistic variation / Cynthia G. Clopper and David B. Pisoni -- Aphasia in multilingual populations / Martin R. Gitterman -- Designing assessments for multilinguals / Janet L. Patterson and Barbara L. Rodríguez -- Literacy as a sociolinguistic process for clinical purposes / Jack S. Damico, Ryan L. Nelson and Linda Bryan -- The sociolinguistics of sign languages / Ceil Lucas, Robert Bayley and Arlene Blumenthal Kelly -- Managing linguistic diversity in the clinic / Kim M. Isaac.Sociolinguistics, the study of the interaction of language and society, has had a major impact on linguistics for the last half-century. However, this prominent branch of the language sciences has had little contact with the field of communication disorders. Clinical Sociolinguistics, a collection of newly commissioned articles written by top scholars, is a major advance in bringing the two fields together. Part I includes chapters that outline findings from sociolinguistic research and point to the relevance of such findings for practicing speech-language pathologists. Topics discussed include bilingualism, code-switching, language planning, and a detailed look at African American English. Part II contains chapters that specifically demonstrate how these research paradigms can be applied to assessment, diagnosis, and treatment in the clinical situation. -- Bokk jacket