The research herein is gathered across disciplines to provide theoretical and clinical contributions and collaborations, making this book broadly appropriate to students, researchers and professionals in the fields.
Roberto Graci has a PhD in Cognitive Sciences from the University of Messina. His work focuses on the communicative competence of people with aphasia and its implication on the semantics/pragmatics debate. He has published several papers emphasising the productive comparison between theoretical pragmatics and speech-language pathology. Roberto Graci has also actively participated in important events on linguistics and philosophy of language, including Pragmasophia 3 and the XIV Congress of SIFA (Italian Society of Analytical Philosophy).
Innehållsförteckning
Introduction.- Chapter 1. The Intersection of Philosophy and Linguistics in Understanding Language Pathologies.- Chapter 2. Understanding the Significance of Situational Context and Common Ground in Communication.- Chapter 3. The Semantics/Pragmatics Interface.- Chapter 4. The Cognitive Substrates of Pragmatics.- Chapter 5. Aphasia, Sub-Sentential Speeches and Pragmatic Enrichment.- Concluding Remarks and Future Directions for the Semantics/Pragmatics Debate.