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The Handbooks of Applied Linguistics provide a state-of-the-art description of established and emerging areas of Applied Linguistics. Each volume gives an overview of the field, explains the most important traditions and their findings, identifies the gaps in current research, and gives perspectives for future directions.

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In our everyday life, communicative processes are relevant in almost all situations. It is important to know whether you should say something which is adequate in the situation or whether it is better to say nothing at all. Communicative competence is fundamental for a successful life in our society as it is of great importance for all areas of life. Therefore, it is not surprising that communicative competence is the subject of many theoretical and empirical approaches and, in consequence, research on this topic is diverse. We focus our contributions on linguistic aspects of communication. In the centre of interest are linguistic oriented performances of different forms of communicative competence, language acquisition, and language disorders. The topics of this book concern the description of methods for studying language in the brain, the interaction between language and cognition, discourse acquisition of children, literacy acquisition and its precursors, the use and acquisition of the sign language, models and training of writing and reading, nonverbal communicative competence, media competence, communication training, developmental dyslexia, the treatment of stuttering, and the description of language disorders.

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HAL 1 -Handbook ofIndividual Communication Competence
Table of Contents

I. FOUNDATIONS
1. The Concept of Communicative Competence
Gert Rickheit/ Hans Strohner Constanze Vorwerg

II. ACQUISITION
2. Language and Neurophysiological Development
Ralph-Axel Mueller, Erica Palmer
3. Cognitive Foundations
Katharina J. Rohlfing
4. First Utterances
Holly L. Storkel
5. Discourse Acquisition
Clair Pond, Michael Siegal
6. Literacy Acquisition and Its Precursors
Pekka Niemi
7. Sign Language Acquisition
Vivian Raithel

III. ADULT COMPETENCE
8. Speaking and Listening
Thomas Holtgraves
9. Writing and Reading
Elke Prestin
10. Nonverbal Communication Competence
Nancy M. Puccinelli
11. Media Competence
Daniel Perrin, Maureen Ehrensberger

IV. COMPETENCE TRAINING
12. Communication Training
Annette Lepschy
13. Coping with the Needs of Presentation
Mike Allen, Nancy Burrell, John Bourhis
14. Training of Writing and Reading
Eva-Maria Jakobs, Daniel Perrin

V. LANGUAGE THERAPY
15. Developmental dyslexia: A Developmental Neurolinguistic Approach
Virginia W. Berninger, William Nagy, Todd Richards, Wendy Raskind
16. Language disorders
Martina Hielscher-Fastabend
17. The Nature and Treatment of Stuttering
Ashley Craig

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