Clinical Pragmatics and the Cognitive Sciences: Language, Mind, and Communication Across the Lifespan | ESOL edit
CFP for publication or other deadlineJanuary 31, 2027
Clinical Pragmatics and the Cognitive Sciences: Language, Mind, and Communication Across the Lifespan
Call for chapters bringing clinical, linguistic, philosophical, psychological, neuropsychological, and cognitive-scientific approaches to pragmatic communication.
Edited by Paola Pennisi (University of Messina, Italy)
Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology
language, meaning, cognition, and social interaction
The volume welcomes clinical, linguistic, philosophical, psychological, neuropsychological, and cognitive-scientific approaches to pragmatic communication across the lifespan. Contributions are particularly encouraged to use evidence from clinical and atypical pragmatic-linguistic profiles to develop, refine, or challenge broader theories of language, meaning, cognition, and interaction.
There are no submission or publication fees for contributors.
Topics
Topics may include:
Autism and other neurodevelopmental conditions
Social and pragmatic communication disorders
Developmental language disorder and intellectual disability
Genetic and rare syndromes
Schizophrenia, psychosis, and psychiatric conditions
Aphasia and right-hemisphere communication disorders
Traumatic brain injury
Parkinson's disease, dementia, and other neurodegenerative conditions
Hearing loss, visual impairment, and multimodal communication
Pragmatic development and pragmatic changes across the lifespan
Theory of mind, mentalizing, and social cognition
Executive functions, memory, attention, emotion, and cognitive flexibility
Pragmatic inference, implicature, presupposition, and speech acts
Metaphor, irony, humour, sarcasm, and indirect language
Narrative, discourse, conversation, prosody, gesture, and gaze
Embodied, enactive, phenomenological, ecological, and interactional approaches
Pragmatic assessment, diagnosis, intervention, and rehabilitation
Cross-linguistic, cross-cultural, and multilingual perspectives
Digital technologies, computational methods, and artificial intelligence
Related proposals are also welcome.
Types of Contributions
The volume welcomes:
Experimental and observational studies
Descriptions of pragmatic-linguistic profiles
Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-method studies
Conversation, discourse, narrative, and multimodal analyses
Clinical case studies and case series
Comparative and transdiagnostic studies
Assessment and intervention studies
Methodological contributions
Theoretical and philosophical papers
Systematic, scoping, and narrative reviews
Meta-analyses and interdisciplinary position papers
Contributions may address any age group, from early childhood to older adulthood.