Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics in Bulgaria – from Isolation to Interdisciplinary Approach

Abstract

Clinical linguistics and phonetics is one of the fast growing scientific fields in the past decades. Its role is important either for developing methods and interdisciplinary ap-proach in linguistics and phonetics or studying the nature of communicative disorders. It could also include collaborative work with specialists from other fields as computational linguistics, neuroscience, etc. In this broad context clinical linguistics and phonetics is a challenge for the Humanities in Bulgaria. The reason is that with regard to interdiscipli-nary research in this area there is still much to be done. A few are the studies in Bulgaria which could be related to Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics but many of them have the disadvantage of a research in isolation, i.e. with no collaboration with the appropriate specialists. When it is up to communication an interdisciplinary and even multidisciplinary approach is needed having in mind that communication itself is a complicated process and its disorders are a challenge for all scientists who work in the field of communication.