Language in Society: Clinical Sociolinguistics (Hardcover)

Clinical Sociolinguistics examines how sociolinguistic research paradigms can be applied to assessment, diagnosis and treatment in the clinical situation.

• fills gap in the literature for speech-language pathologists by addressing how sociolinguistic research paradigms can be applied to assessment, diagnosis and treatment in the clinical situation
  
• collects newly commissioned articles written by top scholars in the field
  
• includes chapters that outline findings from sociolinguistic research over the last 40 years and point to the relevance of such findings for practicing speech-language pathologists
  
• discusses topics including bilingualism, code-switching, language planning, and African-American English