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Pilot study of online training modules to improve speech-language pathology students’ explicit syntax knowledge
Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) exhibit weaknesses in the syntactic aspects of language that affect their spoken language (i.e.,...
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The Intersection of Philosophy and Linguistics in Understanding Language Pathologies
This chapter delves into the main theses of theoretical pragmatics, introduces the terms of the debate between minimalism and contextualism, and...
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Pragmatic Disorders in the Twenty-First Century
In 40 years, pragmatics has moved from a position of relative obscurity in the study of language disorder to become an area of central interest to...
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Introduction
In Marvel’s film Thor (2011), Thor has just been evicted by his father Odin to the human world and is found unconscious by a group of scientists,...
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New Research Trends in Chinese Linguistics: Section Introduction
This chapter summarizes the chapters in Section I of The Palgrave Handbook of Chinese Language Studies which discuss recent developments in various...
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New Research Trends in Chinese Linguistics: Introduction
This chapter summarizes the chapters in Section 1 of The Palgrave Handbook of Chinese Language Studies which discuss recent developments in various...
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Maltreated and Traumatized Children and Young People
This chapter starts by reviewing what childhood adversity is understood to encompass, with a particular focus on trauma and maltreatment. We consider...
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Huntington’s Disease
Huntington’s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder with progressive motor, cognitive, and neuropsychiatric impairments. There is evidence that...
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Research in Clinical Pragmatics: The Essence of a New Philosophy, the State of the Art and Future Research
A relatively new discipline is being born. Clinical pragmatics is a new research field mainly dedicated to investigate cognitive underpinnings of...
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Multiple Sclerosis
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is the single biggest cause of neurological disability in young adults. It has a direct burden on both social interactions...
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Utmost Hybridity: Promotional Trends in Technology Disclosures
This chapter examines the hybrid nature of the ‘technology disclosure’, a relatively recent digital genre for technology dissemination born in...
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Dementia of the Alzheimer Type
This chapter examines how dementia of the Alzheimer type, a form of dementia resulting from Alzheimer disease, affects pragmatic language abilities....
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Learning a Language of Sexuality
This chapter examines how people learned discretion, responses to surveillance, and other linguistic practices expressing messages about sexual...
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Traumatic Brain Injury
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) refers to brain injury acquired through a traumatic event such as a motor vehicle crash, assault, or fall resulting in...
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Stylistics: Mind Style in an Autobiographical Account of Schizophrenia
In this chapter, we explore the experience of what can be labelled 'schizophrenia' and 'auditory verbal hallucinations' in the published...
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CDA/CDS and Its Interdisciplinary Connections
This chapter clarifies and underscores the importance of interdisciplinarity in CDA/CDS research, and then provides an overview of its salient and...
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Introduction
Chapter 1 is an introduction to the subject matter of the textbook. It addresses two fundamental concepts: language and linguistics. Language is a...
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Practical Applications
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language, a universal characteristic of the human species. It has two sides: theoretical and practical....
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Introduction to Linguistic Semiotics
As with language, it is quite difficult for us to give definitions that could reach full consensus to linguistics. Most linguists, however, hold that...
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Medical Professional Discourse in Terms of Cognitive Linguistic Analysis
The problem of professional discourse exploration is closely connected with the process of various types of ESP investigation from different points...