COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CLINICAL PRAGMATICS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
DIL 6131 CLINICAL PRAGMATICS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 9

Offered By

General Linguistics

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR BURCU ILKAY KARAMAN

Offered to

General Linguistics

Course Objective

This course addresses what is currently known about a range of pragmatic disorders in children and adults. Pragmatic disorders are now a significant area of clinical language study, since pragmatically disordered clients have for too long not been receiving the type of high-quality clinical services that we have now come to expect for clients with other language disorders (e.g. specific language impairment, aphasia, phonological disorder). The objective of the course is therefore to examine the nature of interdisciplinary exchanges in the field of clinical linguistics, many of which have gone unnoticed, and to suggest ways in which these exchanges may contribute to our understanding of pragmatic disorders.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   1. to collect and analyse clinical data,
2   2. to collect linguistic data, i.e. taking samples of linguistic disability,
3   3. to gain knowledge on developmental and acquired pragmatic disorders,
4   4. to research certain pragmatic notion, with particular focus on linguistic disability,
5   5. to take the theories, methods and findings of linguistics, and to use them as a means of elucidating the nature of pathological conditions, insofar as these are manifested in (spoken or written) language.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Clinical Pragmatics: Theories and Applications
2 A survey of developmental pragmatic disorders
3 A survey of developmental pragmatic disorders (Continued)
4 A survey of acquired pragmatic disorders
5 A survey of acquired pragmatic disorders (Continued)
6 MID-TERM EXAM
7 The contribution of pragmatics to cognitive theories of autism
8 The contribution of pragmatics to cognitive theories of autism (Continued)
9 The cognitive substrates of acquired pragmatic disorders
10 The cognitive substrates of acquired pragmatic disorders (Continued)
11 The assessment and treatment of pragmatic disorders
12 The assessment and treatment of pragmatic disorders (Continued)
13 A critical evaluation of pragmatic assessment and treatment techniques
14 Overview Discussion

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Ball, Martin J. et. al. (eds.) (2008) The Handbook of Clinical Linguistics. Malden & Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
2. Cummings, Louise (2008) Clinical Linguistics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
3. Cummings, Louise (2009) Clinical Pragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
4. Cummings, Louise (2017) Research in Clinical Pragmatics Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology. Springer International Publishing.
5. Crystal, David (1981) Clinical Linguistics. Disorders of Human Communication 3. Wien: Springer Verlag.
6. Fava, Elisabetta (ed.) (2002) Clinical Linguistics: Theory and Applications in Speech Pathology and Therapy. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Co.
7. Ingram, Charles (2007) Neurolinguistics An Introduction to Spoken Language Processing and its Disorders. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Lectures
2. Presentations
3. Diagnostics

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + STT * 0.20 + FIN * 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + STT * 0.20 + RST * 0.40


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

1- Assignments/Presentations Portfolio
2- Mid-term Exam
3- Final Exam

Assessment Criteria

1. Learning outcomes 1-5 will be evaluated through the assignments/presentations portfolio, mid-term and final examinations.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1. Class attendance of 70% is obligatory.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

burcu.karaman@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

By appointment

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 8 104
Preparation for midterm exam 1 14 14
Preparation for final exam 1 28 28
Preparing presentations 1 28 28
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 217

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6
LO.1555555
LO.2555555
LO.3
LO.4555555
LO.5555555

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