'Let me tell you the point': How speakers with aphasia assign prominence to information in narratives
| Autor: | Craig T. Stewart, Gloria Streit Olness, Samuel E. Matteson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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Linguistics and Language
Point (typography) Frequency of use LPN and LVN Language and Linguistics Linguistics Neurology Otorhinolaryngology Expression (architecture) Aphasia Developmental and Educational Psychology medicine Narrative Neurology (clinical) medicine.symptom Psychology Event (probability theory) |
| Zdroj: | Aphasiology. 24:697-708 |
| ISSN: | 1464-5041 0268-7038 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/02687030903438524 |
| Popis: | Background: A central purpose of narration is to convey one's point of view about a narrated event. One's expressed evaluation of a narrated event (modalising behaviour) is often differentiated from one's expression of the sequence of events proper (referential behaviour). Modalising and referential language may be dissociated in aphasia, with modalising language relatively preserved. Use of narrative evaluative devices is one way to modalise, transmit significance, or assign prominence to information in narratives. Aims: This study examines the frequency of use, co-occurrence, and distribution of multiple evaluative devices in the personal narratives of speakers with aphasia, as compared to that of narratives produced by demographically similar speakers without aphasia. Methods & Procedures: Participants were 33 demographically matched, English-speaking, middle-aged adults. Of these, 17 had aphasia, and 16 had no neurological disorder. Each group included similar proportions of three demographic subgroup... |
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