Groenewold Rimke, Armstrong Elizabeth
School of Medical and Health Sciences, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, Perth, WA, Australia & Center for Language and Cognition Groningen, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
School of Medical and Health Sciences, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, Perth, WA, Australia.
Int J Lang Commun Disord. 2018 Jul;53(4):836-851. doi: 10.1111/1460-6984.12392. Epub 2018 May 14.
Previous research has shown that speakers with aphasia rely on enactment more often than non-brain-damaged language users. Several studies have been conducted to explain this observed increase, demonstrating that spoken language containing enactment is easier to produce and is more engaging to the conversation partner. This paper describes the effects of the occurrence of enactment in casual conversation involving individuals with aphasia on its level of conversational assertiveness.
To evaluate whether and to what extent the occurrence of enactment in speech of individuals with aphasia contributes to its conversational assertiveness.
METHODS & PROCEDURES: Conversations between a speaker with aphasia and his wife (drawn from AphasiaBank) were analysed in several steps. First, the transcripts were divided into moves, and all moves were coded according to the systemic functional linguistics (SFL) framework. Next, all moves were labelled in terms of their level of conversational assertiveness, as defined in the previous literature. Finally, all enactments were identified and their level of conversational assertiveness was compared with that of non-enactments.
OUTCOMES & RESULTS: Throughout their conversations, the non-brain-damaged speaker was more assertive than the speaker with aphasia. However, the speaker with aphasia produced more enactments than the non-brain-damaged speaker. The moves of the speaker with aphasia containing enactment were more assertive than those without enactment.
CONCLUSIONS & IMPLICATIONS: The use of enactment in the conversations under study positively affected the level of conversational assertiveness of the speaker with aphasia, a competence that is important for speakers with aphasia because it contributes to their floor time, chances to be heard seriously and degree of control over the conversation topic.
先前的研究表明，失语症患者比未受过脑损伤的语言使用者更频繁地依赖动作演示。已经开展了几项研究来解释这一观察到的增加现象，结果表明，包含动作演示的口语更容易产生，并且对对话伙伴更具吸引力。本文描述了在涉及失语症患者的日常对话中动作演示的出现对其对话主动性水平的影响。
评估失语症患者言语中动作演示的出现是否以及在多大程度上有助于其对话主动性。
分几个步骤分析了一位失语症患者与其妻子之间的对话（取自失语症语料库）。首先，将文字记录划分为话轮，所有话轮均根据系统功能语言学（SFL）框架进行编码。接下来，根据先前文献中定义的对话主动性水平，为所有话轮贴上标签。最后，识别所有动作演示，并将其对话主动性水平与非动作演示的进行比较。
在整个对话过程中，未受过脑损伤的说话者比失语症患者更主动。然而，失语症患者比未受过脑损伤的说话者产生了更多的动作演示。失语症患者包含动作演示的话轮比不包含动作演示的话轮更具主动性。
在所研究的对话中使用动作演示对失语症患者的对话主动性水平产生了积极影响，这种能力对失语症患者很重要，因为它有助于增加他们的发言时间、被认真倾听的机会以及对对话主题的掌控程度。
