Intro; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Abbreviations; List of Figures; Chapter 1 Introduction; Abstract; References; Chapter 2 Language and Communication-The Contexualized and "Person-Centered" Nature of Linguistic and Communicative Action; Abstract; New Horizons in the Study of Language and Communication; Positioning Integrational Linguistics; The Functions of Language; A Hint from the Data; Introducing Important Peer Positions; A Mixed Friendship: Integrational Linguistics and Conversation Analysis; A New Kind of Integrational Linguistics; Introduction to Applied Integrationism

A New Introduction to Harris' SemioticsBiomechanical Factors; Macrosocial Factors; Circumstantial Factors; Hierarchy of Factors; Integrational Communication and Meaning; An Alternative Theorizing on Language and Communication; Traditional Counter-Positions; Inherent Meaning in Language; Objectivized Content in Linguistic Representations; Signs, Language, and Communication; Decompartmentalizing Linguistics; The Epistemology of the IL-Inspired Analysis; A Folk Science of Signs and Communication; Building on an Integrational Practice Perspective; The Practice Turn

Practice Theory-A Rapidly Expanding FieldTools in Practice Research; References; Chapter 3 Language and Communication Disorders as an Area of Study; Abstract; Language and Communication Disorders; Understanding the Case of Linguistic Impairment; Understanding Health-Related Disorders as Biologically Based; The Case of Autism; The Functionalist/Functioning Approach to Language and Communication Disorders; The Lived Experience of Disabilities and Disorders; Towards a Practice Approach to Language and Communication Disorders; The Case of Aphasia; Conversation Analysis and Aphasia; References

Chapter 4 Meaning-Towards a Person-Centered ApproachAbstract; A New Person-Centered Meaning-Making; Person-Centeredness in Language and Communication Disorders; The Status of Language in Language and Communication Disorders; Meaning-Making in Dialogical Practices; Shared Meaning-Making in Interaction Studies; Methodological Issues Regarding Meaning-Making; A Person-Centered Approach to Meaning; Meaning-Making in Language Psychology; Meanings Defined Integrationally; Experiential Meaning; Contextualization and Cotemporality; Context as Agency

An Alternative Theorizing on Language and CommunicationStructuralism's Heritage: Inherent Meaning in Language; The Ascription of Content to the Sign; First-Order and Second-Order Language; Integrational Meaning-Making; An Applied Integrational Linguistic Premise; The Distributed Language View and Integrational Linguistics; Operating on the Grounds of an Integrational Linguistic Perspective; Decompartmentalizing Linguistics; Language Matters; Towards a New Participant Perspective; Narrations of Language Disorders Included; The Beginning of Integrational Linguistic Analysis; Research Questions