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Discourse Analysis in TBI Flashcards

(11 cards)

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Describe DA

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  • primarily an approach developed within linguistics
  • clinically, data not often spontaneous
  • often monologue or dialogic talk with clinician/researcher
  • lends well to coding and quantification
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Describe Togher and Hand’s study (1998)

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  • looked at politeness in TBI
  • used features of systemic functional linguistics (how lang used between ppts and negotiation of social relationships between them)
  • data from role played telephone calls comparing typical and TBI
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What did Togher and Hand (1998) find?

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controls used sig more politeness marker per clause than TBI

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What were the findings of Tougher and Hand (1998) hypothesised to link to?

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  • People with TBI expressing literal concepts and having difficulty with production and comprehension of abstract or complex language
  • People with TBI having neuropsychological impairments relating to planning, monitoring, social cognition and judgement
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Define cohesion

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surface indications of relations within and between sentences; it occurs when the interpretation of an element of the discourse is dependent on another element (e.g. references, ellipsis, conjunctions)

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Define coherence

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the result of appropriate topic maintenence

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Define local coherence

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  • topical relation between an utterance and the immediately preceeding utterance
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Define global coherence

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topical relation between utterance and general topic

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What did Ellis er al (2016) find?

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a number of studies suggest TBI do worse in global coherence than typical

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What did Glosser and Deser (1990) find?

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  • in coherence,TBI sig impaired compared to controls
  • global coherence worse than local coherene
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What is coherence likely to rely on?

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  • semantic memory, simultaneous attention and manipulation of several items of info
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