28.143, Books: Blind People’s Pragmatic Abilities: Sak-Wernicka

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Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2017 13:02:14
From: Chris Humphrey [chumphrey at c-s-p.org]
Subject: Blind People’s Pragmatic Abilities: Sak-Wernicka

 


Title: Blind People’s Pragmatic Abilities 
Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
	   http://www.cambridgescholars.com/
	

Book URL: http://www.cambridgescholars.com/blind-peoples-pragmatic-abilities 


Author: Jolanta Sak-Wernicka

Hardback: ISBN:  9781443817295 Pages: 280 Price: U.K. £ 61.99
Hardback: ISBN:  9781443817295 Pages: 280 Price: U.S. $ 105.95


Abstract:

This book offers an analysis of blind people’s pragmatic abilities. By
exploring the impact of visual impairment on the interpretation of utterances,
it identifies common ground between the pragmatic analysis of comprehension
and visual impairment, and shows how the study of pragmatics can be enriched
by the study of visual impairment.

It also investigates the role of accessible contextual cues and the effect of
visual impairment on comprehension. Although it is generally accepted that
context plays a crucial role in comprehension, it is still unknown what effect
a lack (or insufficiency) of certain contextual information has on
interpretation and mutual communication between people. This raises the
question of whether people who are blind are equally competent and successful
in interpreting spoken language as sighted people. Also, bearing in mind the
specific difficulties and delays faced by blind children in social and
linguistic development indicated in previous studies, it is worth exploring
whether these initial difficulties are eventually overcome by blind adults.
This book, in offering a satisfactory answer to this relevant question, is one
of the very few publications devoted to the analysis of the pragmalinguistic
consequences of blindness.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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