Laura Cummings
Biographic Data
| ID | 77676 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Cummings |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Cummings |
| SIGNATURE | CUMMINGS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nottingham Trent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8947-8195 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Charting the decline of pragmatics in adults with neurodegenerative disorders
Neurodegenerative diseases are one of the biggest health challenges of our time. They deprive individuals of their independence, reduce a person’s quality of life, and are a significant health and economic burden on societies around the world. A wide range of clinicians is involved in assessing, diagnosing and treating people with neurodegenerative diseases. But while neurologists, psychiatrists and geriatricians bring extensive medical expertise…
Pragmatic impairment and Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic is the greatest global health threat in over 100 years. Its impact is seen in large numbers of premature deaths and the loss of economic stability for many millions of people. A significant number of people who contract the SARS-CoV-2 virus – the virus that causes COVID disease – experience symptoms many months after their acute illness. So-called Long COVID is now a recognized condition, with many affected individuals unabl…
Covid-19 and Speech-Language Pathology
The role of pragmatics in the diagnosis of dementia
Dementia is a large and growing public health problem that poses considerable economic and social challenges to many countries around the world. The emphasis of clinical intervention is to delay the onset of severe functional limitations that are associated with poor outcomes and large health and social care costs. For this to be possible, however, clinicians must achieve earlier diagnosis of the condition than is currently the case. I argue that…
A “nasty woman”: Assessing the gendered mediation of Hillary Clinton’s nonverbal immediacy cues during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign
Hillary Clinton’s defeat in the 2016 U.S. presidential election was a stunning upset that confounded pollsters, pundits, and journalists predicting a solid win by the former secretary of state and Democratic candidate against businessperson and reality television star Donald Trump. This article uses the theoretical lenses of gendered mediation and the double bind to investigate how U.S. media framed Clinton’s credibility and likability as a femal…
Describing the Cookie Theft picture: Sources of breakdown in Alzheimer’s dementia
Speech-language pathologists routinely use picture description tasks to assess expository discourse in clients with disorders such as aphasia and dementia. One picture description task – the Cookie Theft picture from the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination – has come to dominate clinical settings more than any other task. In this article, I examine why this particular picture description task has proven to be so successful in assessing exposito…
Theory of mind in utterance interpretation: The Case From Clinical Pragmatics
The cognitive basis of utterance interpretation is an area that continues to provoke intense theoretical debate among pragmatists. That utterance interpretation involves some type of mind-reading or theory of mind (ToM) is indisputable. However, theorists are divided on the exact nature of this ToM-based mechanism. In this paper, it is argued that the only type of ToM-based mechanism that can adequately represent the cognitive basis of utterance …
Theorising in pragmatics: Commentary on Bara's Cognitive Pragmatics: The Mental Processes of Communication (MIT Press, 2010)
Pragmatic disorders and their social impact
Pragmatic disorders in children and adults have been the focus of clinical investigations for approximately 40 years. In that time, clinicians and researchers have established a diverse range of pragmatic phenomena that are disrupted in these disorders. Pragmatic deficits include problems with the use and understanding of speech acts, the processing of non-literal language, failure to adhere to Gricean maxims in conversation and discourse deficit…
Considering risk assessment up close: The case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy
Risk assessment studies often adopt a quantitative approach and analyse decisions or judgements in relation to risk at one specific point in time. These studies certainly have their merits but their preponderance in the literature on risk has been to the exclusion of qualitative studies that seek to examine judgements of subjects over an extended period of time. I seek to redress this imbalance by examining how scientists assessed risk in the con…
Clinical pragmatics: A field in search of phenomena
Children Seen and Heard
The scientific reductionism of relevance theory: The lesson from logical positivism
The Mexican Urban Household: Organizing for Self‐Defense . Henry A. Selby, ARTHUR D. MURPHY, and STEPHEN A. Lorenzen with Ignacio Cabrera, Aida Castaneda, and Ignacio Ruiz Love
The Mexican Corrido: A Feminist Analysis. MARÍA Herrera-Sobek
Carne con Limón: Reflections on the Construction of Social Harmlessness
Carne con Limón: Reflections on the Construction of Social Harmlessness
The scientific reductionism of relevance theory: The lesson from logical positivism
Theory of mind in utterance interpretation: The Case From Clinical Pragmatics
The cognitive basis of utterance interpretation is an area that continues to provoke intense theoretical debate among pragmatists. That utterance interpretation involves some type of mind-reading or theory of mind (ToM) is indisputable. However, theorists are divided on the exact nature of this ToM-based mechanism. In this paper, it is argued that the only type of ToM-based mechanism that can adequately represent the cognitive basis of utterance …
The Mexican Corrido: A Feminist Analysis. MARÍA Herrera-Sobek
Carne con Limón: Reflections on the Construction of Social Harmlessness
The Mexican Corrido: A Feminist Analysis. MARÍA Herrera-Sobek
The Mexican Urban Household: Organizing for Self‐Defense . Henry A. Selby, ARTHUR D. MURPHY, and STEPHEN A. Lorenzen with Ignacio Cabrera, Aida Castaneda, and Ignacio Ruiz Love
The scientific reductionism of relevance theory: The lesson from logical positivism
Children Seen and Heard
Clinical pragmatics: A field in search of phenomena
Pragmatic disorders and their social impact
Pragmatic disorders in children and adults have been the focus of clinical investigations for approximately 40 years. In that time, clinicians and researchers have established a diverse range of pragmatic phenomena that are disrupted in these disorders. Pragmatic deficits include problems with the use and understanding of speech acts, the processing of non-literal language, failure to adhere to Gricean maxims in conversation and discourse deficit…
Considering risk assessment up close: The case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy
Risk assessment studies often adopt a quantitative approach and analyse decisions or judgements in relation to risk at one specific point in time. These studies certainly have their merits but their preponderance in the literature on risk has been to the exclusion of qualitative studies that seek to examine judgements of subjects over an extended period of time. I seek to redress this imbalance by examining how scientists assessed risk in the con…
Theorising in pragmatics: Commentary on Bara's Cognitive Pragmatics: The Mental Processes of Communication (MIT Press, 2010)
Theory of mind in utterance interpretation: The Case From Clinical Pragmatics
The cognitive basis of utterance interpretation is an area that continues to provoke intense theoretical debate among pragmatists. That utterance interpretation involves some type of mind-reading or theory of mind (ToM) is indisputable. However, theorists are divided on the exact nature of this ToM-based mechanism. In this paper, it is argued that the only type of ToM-based mechanism that can adequately represent the cognitive basis of utterance …
Describing the Cookie Theft picture: Sources of breakdown in Alzheimer’s dementia
Speech-language pathologists routinely use picture description tasks to assess expository discourse in clients with disorders such as aphasia and dementia. One picture description task – the Cookie Theft picture from the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination – has come to dominate clinical settings more than any other task. In this article, I examine why this particular picture description task has proven to be so successful in assessing exposito…
The role of pragmatics in the diagnosis of dementia
Dementia is a large and growing public health problem that poses considerable economic and social challenges to many countries around the world. The emphasis of clinical intervention is to delay the onset of severe functional limitations that are associated with poor outcomes and large health and social care costs. For this to be possible, however, clinicians must achieve earlier diagnosis of the condition than is currently the case. I argue that…
A “nasty woman”: Assessing the gendered mediation of Hillary Clinton’s nonverbal immediacy cues during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign
Hillary Clinton’s defeat in the 2016 U.S. presidential election was a stunning upset that confounded pollsters, pundits, and journalists predicting a solid win by the former secretary of state and Democratic candidate against businessperson and reality television star Donald Trump. This article uses the theoretical lenses of gendered mediation and the double bind to investigate how U.S. media framed Clinton’s credibility and likability as a femal…
Pragmatic impairment and Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic is the greatest global health threat in over 100 years. Its impact is seen in large numbers of premature deaths and the loss of economic stability for many millions of people. A significant number of people who contract the SARS-CoV-2 virus – the virus that causes COVID disease – experience symptoms many months after their acute illness. So-called Long COVID is now a recognized condition, with many affected individuals unabl…
Covid-19 and Speech-Language Pathology
Charting the decline of pragmatics in adults with neurodegenerative disorders
Neurodegenerative diseases are one of the biggest health challenges of our time. They deprive individuals of their independence, reduce a person’s quality of life, and are a significant health and economic burden on societies around the world. A wide range of clinicians is involved in assessing, diagnosing and treating people with neurodegenerative diseases. But while neurologists, psychiatrists and geriatricians bring extensive medical expertise…
Psychology (9 works) · Disease (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Pragmatics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Cognition (3 works)