Main description:

Discourse Analysis in Adults With and Without Communication Disorders: A Resource for Clinicians and Researchers provides state-of-the-art information about discourse analysis with sections on Aging, Aphasia, Cognitive Communication Disorders, and Neurodegenerative Diseases. The three renowned editors are actively engaged in the area of discourse. Expert clinical researchers introduce and organize each section, and chapters are authored by leaders involved in discourse research worldwide.

Discourse is considered the most natural unit of language. Effective production of discourse requires complex interactions among linguistic, cognitive, and social abilities that are sensitive to even mild disruption in any one of these elements. This book covers the examination of discourse in adults with acquired communication disorders, including selecting elicitation tasks, streamlining transcription processes, expanding analysis methods, and translating findings for treatment application.

Contents:

Preface
Acknowledgements
About the Editors
Contributors

Chapter 1. Discourse Analysis in Adults With and Without Communication Disorders: An Overview
Carl Coelho, Barbara B. Shadden, and Leora R. Cherney

Section I. Discourse and Typical Aging

Heather Harris Wright, Topic Chair

Chapter 2. Cognitive and Linguistic Characteristics of Narrative Discourse Production in Healthy Aging

Andrea Marini

Chapter 3. Discourse Processing in Older Adults: Considering Discourse Elicitation Tasks

Stephen Kintz and Hana Kim

Chapter 4. Conversation and Typical Aging

Marion Leaman and Aviva Lerman

Section II. Discourse in Aphasia

Mary Boyle, Topic Chair for Aphasia

Chapter 5. Analysing Linguistic Features of Discourse in People with Aphasia

Lucy Bryant

Chapter 6. Weaving Research Evidence and Clinical Expertise Together in Discourse Analysis of Spoken Personal Narratives in Aphasia

Lucy Dipper and Madeline Cruice

Chapter 7. Clinical Application of Conversation Analysis in Aphasia

Jamie H. Azios and Nina Simmons-Mackie

Chapter 8. Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Conversational Assessment and Treatment in Aphasia: Learnings From A First Nations Context

Elizabeth Armstrong, Tara Lewis, Alice Robins, Ian Malcolm, and Natalie Ciccone

Section III. Discourse of People with Cognitive Communication Disorders

Leanne Togher, Topic Chair

Chapter 9. Discourse Assessment Across the Recovery Continuum of Traumatic Brain Injury

Elise Elbourn, Joanne Steel, and Elizabeth Spencer

Chapter 10. Assessing Conversation After Traumatic Brain Injury

Louise C. Keegan, Nicholas Behn, Emma Power, Susan Howell & Rachael Rietdijk

Chapter 11. Assessing Discourse In People With Right Hemisphere Disorders

Melissa D. Stockbridge, Jamila Minga, Alexandra Zezinka Durfee, and Melissa Johnson

Chapter 12. Using Technology and Telepractice to Evaluate Discourse After Traumatic Brain Injury

Rachael Rietdijk and Peter Meulenbroek

Section IV. Discourse of People Living With Neurodegenerative Disorders

J.B. Orange, Topic Chair

Chapter 13. Clinical Implications of Discourse Analysis for Individuals With Primary Progressive Aphasia

Sarah Grace Dalton, H. Isabel Hubbard, and Jessica D. Richardson

Chapter 14. What Discourse Analysis Reveals About Conversation and Language Processing in the Context of Dementia of the Alzheimer's Type

Jackie Guendouzi

Chapter 15. Multilevel Discourse Analysis in Parkinson's Disease and Related Disorders

Katharine Aveni and Angela Roberts

Chapter 16. Discourse in ALS: Interplay of Language, Motor, and Executive Factors

Sharon Ash and Sanjana Shellikeri

Section V. Discourse Databases for Use With Clinical Populations

Carl Coelho, Co-Editor

Chapter 17. Discourse Databases for Use With Clinical Populations

Davida Fromm and Brian MacWhinney