Understanding Everyday Communicative Interactions

Understanding Everyday Communicative Interactions is a unique text that uses a situated discourse analysis (SDA) framework to examine basic human communication and the interactions of those with communicative disorders in everyday and clinical settings. The book introduces SDA as a theoretical and empirical approach for examining the complexities of communicative interaction. It explores how people collaborate in everyday contexts to communicate successfully and how they learn to do so. From close analysis of a pretend game played by two children and their father to an observation of a man with aphasia and his family at a football match, the present volume offers rich portraits of communicative lives and illustrates the applications of SDA. The final part of the book uses SDA methods to demonstrate how clinicians can function as communication partners even during assessments and can design rich communicative environments for therapeutic interventions. In explaining the SDA framework and equipping readers with the tools to understand the nature of human communication, this sophisticated and engaging book will be an essential reference for students, researchers, and clinicians in communication sciences and disorders.

Julie A. Hengst is Associate Professor of Speech and Hearing Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has worked in hospitals, supervised student clinicians, and researched everyday communication in order to reshape clinical practice. She is the Co-editor of Exploring Semiotic Remediation as Discourse Practice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) and has published in varied journals.

Preface Acknowledgements Part One-Using situated discourse analysis (SDA) to understand everyday communicative interactions Chapter 1: Exploring everyday communicative interactions Chapter 2: Defining success in everyday communicative interactions Chapter 3: Situated learning and everyday communicative interactions Part Two-Understanding communication disorders in everyday interactions Chapter 4: Situating communication disorders in everyday communicative interactions Chapter 5: Recognizing interactional success with communication disorders Chapter 6: Tracing diverse patterns of learning Part Three -Using situated discourse analysis to understand and design clinical practice Chapter 7: Situating clinical practice and clinical discourse Chapter 8: Clinicians as communication partners supporting success Chapter 9: Designing rich communicative environments in clinical spaces Postscript: Clinical, research, and disciplinary implications References Index