The paradox of helping: Contradictory effects of scaffolding people with aphasia to communicate
| Autor: | Gillespie, Alex, Hald, Julie |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Speech-Language Pathology Video Recording Social Sciences lcsh:Medicine Speech Therapy Laryngology Learning and Memory Sociology Medicine and Health Sciences Aphasia Speech Psychology Learning Humans Interpersonal Relations lcsh:Science Semiotics Language Verbal Communication Behavior Verbal Behavior Communication lcsh:R Cognitive Psychology Social Communication Biology and Life Sciences Linguistics Middle Aged Communications Navigation Otorhinolaryngology Engineering and Technology Cognitive Science Steering Female lcsh:Q Research Article Neuroscience |
| Zdroj: | PLoS ONE, Vol 12, Iss 8, p e0180708 (2017) PLoS ONE |
| ISSN: | 1932-6203 |
| Popis: | When interacting with people with aphasia, communication partners use a range of subtle strategies to scaffold, or facilitate, expression and comprehension. The present article analyses the unintended effects of these ostensibly helpful acts. Twenty people with aphasia and their main communication partners (n = 40) living in the UK were video recorded engaging in a joint task. Three analyses reveal that: (1) scaffolding is widespread and mostly effective, (2) the conversations are dominated by communication partners, and (3) people with aphasia both request and resist help. We propose that scaffolding is inherently paradoxical because it has contradictory effects. While helping facilitates performing an action, and is thus enabling, it simultaneously implies an inability to perform the action independently, and thus it can simultaneously mark the recipient as disabled. Data are in British English. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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