Product Description: This volume takes the positive view that conversation between persons with dementia and their interlocutors is a privileged site for ongoing cognitive engagement. The book aims to identify and describe specific linguistic devices or strategies at the level of turn-by-turn talk that promote and extend conversation, and to explore real-world engagements that reflect these strategies...read more

Product Description: The only volume to offer hands-on information about the wide range of research philosophies, methods and tools used across linguistics, phonetics, and speech science, as applied to disordered speech and language. • Covers core topics for students undertaking their own research, including experimental and qualitative methods, sociolinguistics, corpus construction and analysis, data recording, transcription and digital analysis of speech, and speech imaging...read more

The Neue Merkur, a leading literary and political magazine published in Munich from 1914 to 1916 and from 1919 until 1925, was one of the most influential European journals of its type during the early 1920s. The contributors included such prominent writers and thinkers as Thomas Mann, Heinrich Mann, Bertolt Brecht, Jakob Wassermann, Alfred Weber, Martin Buber and Bernard Shaw. The Neue Merkur also introduced German readers to some of the previously published works of other European writers, such as Pirandello, Isaak Babel, and D.H. Lawrence. Its influence was political to the extent that it launched an international dialogue on a French-German rapprochement; one of the magazine's special issues was reprinted and distributed by the German Foreign office. After extensive archival research in Europe and the United States, including careful study of the editorial files miraculously preserved in their entirety and interviews with more than forty personalities formerly connected with the journal, Professor Stern has written a searching and highly readable account of the dissemination of some of he most significant ideas and ideals of the 1920s. Professor Stern has written a searching and highly readable account of the dissemination of some of the most significant ideas and ideals of the 1920s. The Neue Merkur, a leading literary and political magazine published in Munich, had such contributors as Mann, Brecht, Gide, Buber, and Shaw.

Product Description: This book is designed as a course in the phonetic transcription of normal and disordered speech. What differentiates this book from existing approaches to phonetic transcription and conversational analysis is that it concentrates on linking together layers of detail to result in a complete record for the entire range of transcribable behaviors...read more

Product Description: The selected contributions in this volume bring together applications of pragmatics in speech and language pathology, as well as discussions of the applicability of different theoretical strands of the study of human linguistic interaction and its cognitive bases to the field of communication disorders...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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