Aphasia

Question 1

Aphasia definition, fluent and non fluent.

Answer 1

• Language impairment affecting the production and comprehension of language, often caused by brain damage from a stroke.

Fluent - WFD and comprehension problems

Non-fluent - inability to speak grammatically

Question 2

General

Answer 2

• Long and often abandoned, SISR preferred followed by SIOR (Beeke et al 13; W)
• Range of verbal/nonverbal resources to construct turns (GW; Betal)
• CP may adapt their turns in distinctive ways which disrupts sequence e.g. test questions
• H&G distinctive way in which WFD dealt with (L&K)

Question 3

Repair Concept & Misc. findings

Answer 3

• Practices for dealing with TS in speaking, hearing and understanding in TII
• Lock et al: distinctive form of repair ‘correct production’ CP scaffolds SWA to achieve SR
• Sch: regressive try, repeats earlier turn, signals no progress

Question 4

Repair (W)

Answer 4

• Can occur frequently
• Might be long due to same problem that caused TS stopping them from achieving SR
• Sequence of confirmatory remarks occurs after repair to indicate successful resolution
• Repair focus on conv. for both speakers - CP may adopt didactic role
• Linguistic incompetence may result in laughter - signals light hearted way of coping instead of being embarrassed

Question 5

Turn construction definition.

Wilkinson; Goodwin; Beeke et al (13)

Answer 5

• Aphasia causes delays/inability to produce next part of structured unit which is dispreffered as there is a preference for progressivity (W)
• Retarded progressivity - used as opportunity by another speaker to enter turn of space (W;Lock et al)

Goodwin:

• Overlap - problems of hearing and focus
• Withdrawn gaze - dismantle state of heightened mutual orientation

Beeke et al (13):
- agrammatism/WFD: interferes with turn taking for both P and CP and turns often cutoff/delayed

Question 6

Multimodal resources

Goodwin; Beeke; Wilkinson

Answer 6

e.g. gesture/body movements/prosody

G:

• intonation, sound stretches, body behaviour
• Gesture contributes to an embodied complex of action
• Withdrawn gaze to enter solitary search
• May move gaze from outside where they are facing

B

• Talk and mime construction
• Mime convey emotion?

W

• Use of enactment allows P to use relatively simple linguistic resources
• Kinesic enactment - don’t need vocalisation simultaneously
• SWA reply occurs in environment that has already been constructed