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Article: A speech language pathologist journeys to Highbury.(AGM 2007: Vancouver)(Highbury, England)(Critical essay)
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- Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal
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- January 1, 2007
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HAD THE PROFESSIONS EXISTED in her time, Jane Austen certainly had the observational skills to have been a superb clinical psychologist or speech language pathologist. Those involved in diagnosing and remediating human communication disorders, besides being interested in the motor acts of speech necessary to achieve intelligibility and fluency, also analyze difficulties with the content and structure of oral language and its social use. As her readers have long appreciated, Jane Austen is particularly astute when observing and describing the subtleties of" how people communicate with others. Although "diagnosing"' literary characters is usually a dubious exercise, Jane ...
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