Understanding Everyday Communicative Interactions

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.

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsPart One—Using situated discourse analysis (SDA) to understand everyday communicative interactionsChapter 1: Exploring everyday communicative interactionsChapter 2: Defining success in everyday communicative interactionsChapter 3: Situated learning and everyday communicative interactionsPart Two—Understanding communication disorders in everyday interactionsChapter 4: Situating communication disorders in everyday communicative interactionsChapter 5: Recognizing interactional success with communication disordersChapter 6: Tracing diverse patterns of learningPart Three —Using situated discourse analysis to understand and design clinical practiceChapter 7: Situating clinical practice and clinical discourseChapter 8: Clinicians as communication partners supporting successChapter 9: Designing rich communicative environments in clinical spacesPostscript: Clinical, research, and disciplinary implicationsReferences Index

'Everyday communication is the cornerstone of research and clinical care across a number of disciplines (e.g., communication sciences and disorders, linguistics, psychology, neuroscience). Yet, paradoxically, training in these fields largely focuses on the deconstructed and decontextualized building blocks of communication (phonetics, syntax, discourse) with little consideration of how individuals weave this knowledge together across time, place, and communicative partners in everyday interactions. Hengst’s Understanding Everyday Communicative Interactions fills a critical gap in the multidisciplinary training of future researchers and clinicians offering a rich theoretical framework and a practical set of tools and methods for observing, analyzing, and improving everyday communication across a range of settings and populations.' - Melissa C. Duff, PhD, CCC-SLP, Vanderbilt University, U.S.A.'This forward-thinking volume represents a major theoretical, methodological, and clinical leap forward for the field of CDS. The robust conceptual framework Hengst develops, Situated Discourse Analysis, is astutely illustrated through case studies and innovative interventions that will greatly benefit clinicians, researchers, and ultimately, clients and their families.' - Steven L. Thorne, PhD, Portland State University, U.S.A., & University of Groningen, Netherlands.