Download or read book Clinical Sociolinguistics written by Martin J. Ball and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clinical Sociolinguistics examines how sociolinguisticresearch paradigms can be applied to assessment, diagnosis andtreatment in the clinical situation. fills gap in the literature for speech-language pathologists byaddressing how sociolinguistic research paradigms can be applied toassessment, diagnosis and treatment in the clinical situation collects newly commissioned articles written by top scholars inthe field includes chapters that outline findings from sociolinguisticresearch over the last 40 years and point to the relevance of suchfindings for practicing speech-language pathologists discusses topics including bilingualism, code-switching,language planning, and African-American English