Course Title: Clinical Linguistics and Multilingual Issues Marks – 100

Contact information:
Designation: Adjunct Faculty
Office hours: 8:00 to 12:15 (Tuesday & Thursday)
Evaluation methods: 2 - IA Exams

Syllabus Hours
UNIT I: Introduction to clinical linguistics; Phonological acquisition & related 12
disorders
Introduction to Language & Linguistics 1
Introduction to clinical linguistics 1
Scope of linguistics in clinical field. 2
Principles of general linguistics and their clinical relevance. 2
Phonological acquisition 3
Phonological disability 3
UNIT II: Grammatical and semantic acquisition and related disabilities 12
Grammatical acquisition 3
Grammatical disorders 3
Semantic acquisition 3
Semantic disorders 3
UNIT III: Pragmatics and sociolinguistic concepts 12
Introduction to Pragmatics. Pragmatic development 1
Theoretical background: Discourse, Deixis, 1
Maxims and Truth relations 1
Pragmatic disorders with respect to some clinical disorders 2
Sociolinguistic concepts relevant to speech-language pathologists 1
language and dialects issues, various types and dialects, 1
diglossia, 1
stylistic variation of language-registers 1
Language contact -Creoles, Pidgins, 1
language maintenance, language shift and language death 1
Language deficiency 1
UNIT IV: Psycholinguistics and language acquisition 12
Issues involved in language acquisition 2
Models of second language acquisition 2
Language acquisition in bi- and multi-lingual environments 2
concepts related to proficiency, dominance etc; 1
issues and implications for assessment and intervention 2
Linguistic and psycho-neuro linguistic models of language pathology 3
UNIT V: Multilingual and multicultural issues in communication 10
India as a multilingual nation, Linguistic Diversity 1
A brief introduction to the major language families of India 1
Relation between language and culture; 2
Language & thiught 1
language and thought relationship in view of Sapir-Whorf hypothesis: linguistic determinism 1
and linguistic relativity
Cultural issues - cultural issues in verbal and non-verbal communication 1
Language – Cultural Diversity in India 1
Multicultural and multilingual issues in rehabilitation with special reference to India 2

Recommended Reading
 Radford, A., Atkinson, M., Britain, D., Clahsen, H., & Spencer A. (2009). Linguistics: An introduction.
(2nd Ed). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
 Aitchison, J. (2010). Aitchison's Linguistics: A practical introduction to contemporary linguistics. John
Murray Learning.
 Lyons, J. (1995). Linguistics semantics. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press
 Maassen, B., & Groenen, P. (1999). Pathologies of speech and language: Advances in clinical
phonetics and linguistics. John Wiley & Sons.
 Singh, S. (2005). Phonetics: Principles and Practices. (3rd Ed). San Diego: Plural Publishing.
 Wei, L. (2014). Applied linguistics. UK: Wiley Blackwell.
 Bonvillian, N. (2011). Language, culture and communication. New Jersey: Pearson Education.
 Ball, M., J., Perkins, M., R., Müller, N. & Howard, S. (2008). The handbook of clinical linguistics. (Eds).
Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
 Allan, B. (2014). The guidebook to sociolinguistics. UK: Wiley Blackwell.
 Bishop, D. V. M., & Leonard, L. B. (2007). Speech and language impairments in children. USA:
Psychology
 Pressacy, D. P. (2007). The Cambridge handbook of phonology. Cambridge: Cambridge University
press.