Integrating the Participants’ Perspective in the Study of Language and Communication Disorders - Towards a New Analytical Approach
By Charlotte Marie Bisgaard Klemmensen
- Considers the consequences of communication difficulties and acquired brain damage in everyday practices by taking a cross-disciplinary approach
- Uses a unique approach combining language psychology, discursive psychology and multimodal ethnomethodology
- Offers an understanding of inclusion and exclusion as situated practices in environments where some participants have limited or unusual communicative resources
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/interactional 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.
Charlotte Marie Bisgaard Klemmensen is affiliated with Mattering: Centre for Discourse & Practice
