Cognitive Aphasiology – A Usage-Based Approach to Language in Aphasia
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Aphasia is the most common acquired language disorder in adults, resulting from brain damage, usually stroke. This book firstly explains how aphasia research and clinical practice remain heavily influenced by rule-based, generative theory, and summarizes key shortcomings with this approach. Crucially, it demonstrates how an alternative — the constructivist, usage-based approach — can provide a more plausible theoretical perspective for characterizing language in aphasia. After detailing rigorous transcription and segmentation methods, it presents constructivist, usage-based analyses of spontaneous speech from people with various aphasia ‘types’, challenging a clear-cut distinction between lexis and grammar, emphasizing the need to consider whole-form storage and frequency effects beyond single words, and indicating that individuals fall along a continuum of spoken language capability rather than differing categorically by aphasia ‘type’. It provides original insight into aphasia — with wide-reaching implications for clinical practice —, while equally highlighting how the study of aphasia is important for the development of Cognitive Linguistics.
[Constructional Approaches to Language, 31] 2021. xx, 311 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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List of tables | pp. xiii–xiv
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List of figures | pp. xv–16
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List of common abbreviations | pp. xvii–xviii
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Acknowledgements | pp. xix–xx
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Chapter 1. Introduction | pp. 1–4
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Part I. Aphasia and linguistic theory
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Chapter 2. Aphasia and the rule-based approach | pp. 7–28
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Chapter 3. The constructivist, usage-based approach and its potential in aphasiology | pp. 29–47
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Part II. Methods for research in Cognitive Aphasiology
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Chapter 4. Method of data collection | pp. 51–57
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Chapter 5. Developing a reliable transcription method | pp. 59–75
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Chapter 6. Speech segmentation (extraction of strings for analysis) | pp. 77–92
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Part III. Case study analyses of six speakers with aphasia
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Chapter 7. Quantitative and qualitative analyses of verbs | pp. 95–132
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Chapter 8. Quantitative analyses of strings | pp. 133–150
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Chapter 9. Qualitative analyses of strings | pp. 151–211
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Chapter 10. Overall discussion of findings, implications and limitations | pp. 213–223
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Part IV. Looking forward
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Chapter 11. What next for Cognitive Aphasiology? | pp. 227–228
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References | pp. 229–245
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Appendices
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Appendix I. Language profiles of case study participants | pp. 247–257
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Appendix II. Protocol for counting words in a speech sample | pp. 259–262
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Appendix III. Transcription protocol | pp. 263–268
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Appendix IV. First segmentation protocol | pp. 269–272
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Appendix V. Second segmentation protocol (string extraction) | pp. 273–280
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Appendix VI. Protocol for extraction and classification of verbs | pp. 281–287
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Appendix VII. All verb tokens produced by HB | pp. 289–292
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Appendix VIII. All verb tokens produced by MH | pp. 293–298
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Appendix IX. All strings and subordinate clauses produced by HB | pp. 299–301
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Appendix X. All strings and subordinate clauses produced by HB | pp. 303–307
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Index | pp. 309–311
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFD: Psycholinguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009040: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Psycholinguistics / General