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Discourse Ability and Brain Damage

Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives

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  • © 1990

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Editors:
  1. Yves Joanette

    1. Centre de Recherche, Centre hospitalier Côte-des-Neiges, Montréal, Canada

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  2. Hiram H. Brownell

    1. Department of Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, USA

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Part of the book series: Springer Series in Neuropsychology (SSNEUROPSYCHOL)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Theoretical Perspectives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Discourse Analysis in Linguistics: Historical and Theoretical Background

      • Richard Patry, Jean-Luc Nespoulous
      Pages 3-27

    3. The Psycholinguistics of Discourse Comprehension

      • Gregory L. Murphy
      Pages 28-49

    4. Text Analysis: Macro- and Microstructural Aspects of Discourse Processing

      • Ernest F. Mross
      Pages 50-68

    5. The Cognitive Representation and Processing of Discourse: Function and Dysfunction

      • Carl H. Frederiksen, Robert J. Bracewell, Alain Breuleux, André Renaud
      Pages 69-110

  3. Empirical Perspectives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-111
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    2. Discourse Comprehension by Right-Hemisphere Stroke Patients: Deficits of Prediction and Revision

      • Raymond Molloy, Hiram H. Brownell, Howard Gardner
      Pages 113-130

    3. Narrative Discourse in Right-Brain-Damaged Right-Handers

      • Yves Joanette, Pierre Goulet
      Pages 131-153

    4. Text Comprehension and Production in Aphasia: Analysis in Terms of Micro- and Macroprocessing

      • Walter Huber
      Pages 154-179

    5. Narrative and Procedural Discourse in Aphasia

      • Hanna K. Ulatowska, Lee Allard, Sandra Bond Chapman
      Pages 180-198

    6. Discourse Ability in Children After Brain Damage

      • Maureen Dennis, Maureen W. Lovett
      Pages 199-223

    7. Discourse Abilities and Deficits in Multilingual Dementia

      • Susan De Santi, Loraine K. Obler, Helene Sabo-Abramson, Joan Goldberger
      Pages 224-235

    8. Gender-Specific Discourse Differences in Aphasia

      • Wolfgang U. Dressler, Ruth Wodak, Csaba Pléh
      Pages 236-245

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 247-258
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About this book

Nonspecialists are often surprised by the issues studied and the perspectives assumed by basic scientific researchers. Nowhere has the surprise traditionally been greater than in the field of psychology. College students anticipate that their psychology courses will illuminate their personal problems and their friends' per­ sonalities; they are nonplussed to discover that the perception of geometric forms and the running ofT-mazes dominates the textbooks. The situation is comparable in the domain of linguistics. Nonprofessional observers assume that linguists study exotic languages, that when they choose to focus on their own language, they will examine the meanings of utterances and the uses to which language is put. Such onlookers are taken aback to learn that the learning of remote languages is a marginal activity for most linguists; they are equally amazed to discover that the lion's share of work in the discipline focuses on issues of syntax and phonol­ ogy, which are virtually invisible to the speaker of a language. Science moves in its own, often mysterious ways, and there are perfectly good reasons why experimental psychologists prefer to look at mazes rather than at madness, and why linguists study syntax rather than Sanskrit. Nonetheless, it is a happy event for all concerned when the interests of professionals and non­ specialists begin to move toward one another and a field of study comes to address the "big questions" as well as the experimentally most tractable ones. Discourse Ability and Brain Damage reflects this trend in scientific research.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Centre de Recherche, Centre hospitalier Côte-des-Neiges, Montréal, Canada

    Yves Joanette

  • Department of Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, USA

    Hiram H. Brownell

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Discourse Ability and Brain Damage

  • Book Subtitle: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives

  • Editors: Yves Joanette, Hiram H. Brownell

  • Series Title: Springer Series in Neuropsychology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3262-9

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York Inc. 1990

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-7939-6Published: 17 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-3262-9Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1431-8571

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 258

  • Topics: Psychology, general, Neurology

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