Integrating the Participants Perspective in the Study of Language and Communication Disorders - Charlotte Marie Bisgaard Klemmensen Gebunden

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 interaction al 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.