Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Acknowledgements
- Transcription conventions
- Introduction
- 1 Introduction to clinical discourse analysis
- 2 Theoretical and clinical contexts
- 3 Talk and speech – conversation analysis and intonation in English
- 4 Grammar
- 5 Phase and contexts of culture and situation
- 6 Study design
- 7 Differential diagnosis and monitoring
- 8 Cognitive models, inferencing and affect
- 9 Modelling information across domains
- Closing remarks
- Notes
- Appendix A Some basic grammatical terminology and relations
- Appendix B Inventory of codes
- References
- Author index
- Subject index
Closing remarks
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Acknowledgements
- Transcription conventions
- Introduction
- 1 Introduction to clinical discourse analysis
- 2 Theoretical and clinical contexts
- 3 Talk and speech – conversation analysis and intonation in English
- 4 Grammar
- 5 Phase and contexts of culture and situation
- 6 Study design
- 7 Differential diagnosis and monitoring
- 8 Cognitive models, inferencing and affect
- 9 Modelling information across domains
- Closing remarks
- Notes
- Appendix A Some basic grammatical terminology and relations
- Appendix B Inventory of codes
- References
- Author index
- Subject index
Summary
We wrote this book because we thought a description of the work we do could be helpful for people who want to investigate and understand discourse in clinical contexts. In modelling comprehensive discourse analyses and showing how such analyses may be systematically related to aspects of neurocognition, we hope to have illustrated the usefulness of taking a unifying approach to investigating natural language behaviour, and particularly extended discourse, in relation to neurocognition. Our practice of hybridizing techniques from functional and formal linguistic models, from conversational analysis, ethnomethodology, situational linguistics and pragmatics, as well as from structuralist and semiotic discourse models, artificial intelligence and neuropsychology and bundling them together in order to account for all the different aspects of language that potentially contribute to discourse patterns is driven by the need for comprehensive accounts that are beyond the scope of individual frameworks or discourse models (that we know). We have suggested ways in which the resultant hybrid methodology for clinical discourse analysis can be combined with neuropsychological and neuroimaging techniques and adapted to different situations and cultures. While we have been most concerned to address the need for comprehensive analyses, we have also shown that the amount of detail included in analyses can be adjusted according to the scope and purposes of particular investigations.
We have further suggested that clinical discourse analysis has at least the following potential applications.
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- When Language Breaks DownAnalysing Discourse in Clinical Contexts, pp. 207 - 210Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010