MARTIN J. BALL (ed.), Clinical Sociolinguistics (Blackwell Language in Society Series 36). Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2006. Pp. xx + 335. ISBN: 978–1-4051–1249–9

• Published in: Journal of the International Phonetic Association Vol. 37; no. 2; pp. 201 - 204
• Main Author: Munson, Benjamin
• Format: Journal Article Book Review
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.08.2007
• Subjects: Communication; Dialects; Gender; Handbooks; Laboratories; Linguistics; Pathology; Phonetics; Phonology; Society; Sociolinguistics; Speech therapy; Stereotypes; United Kingdom > UK; United States > US
• ISSN: 0025-1003; 1475-3502
• DOI: 10.1017/S0025100307002964

Sociolinguistics also examines the inuence of power, ethnicity, and patterns of migration on language use. [...]sociolinguistics has examined how social institutions, such as legislative and educational systems, seek to guide the way that language is used or taught. [...]research in SLP has sought to identify the cognitive, perceptual, motor, neurologic, and structural factors that give rise to variation in communication. [...]individuals from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds have been over-represented on SLP caseloads, and intervention approaches have historically focused on the achievement of a prescriptive standard, rather than the facilitation of linguistic competence in the varieties of language spoken in the persons environment. [...]individuals with disorders in speech-sound perception and production make up a large proportion of the caseloads of clinical SLPs.