Discourse in Aphasia

List of contents

Discourse in aphasia: An introduction to current research and future directions /Heather Harris Wright -- AphasiaBank: Methods for studying discourse /Brian MacWhinney; Davida Fromm, Margaret Forbes, and Audrey Holland -- Discourse treatment for word retrieval impairment in aphasia: The story so far /Mary Boyle -- A comparison of drill- and communication-based treatment for aphasia /Daniel Kempler and Mira Goral -- Monologues and dialogues in aphasia: Some initial comparisons /Elizabeth Armstrong, Natalie Ciccone, Erin Godecke, and Betty Kok -- A multi-level approach to the analysis of narrative language in aphasia / Andrea Marini, Sara Andreetta, Silvana del Tin, and Sergio Carlomagno -- Personal narratives in aphasia: Coherence in the context of use /Gloria Streit Olness and Hanna K. Ulatowska -- Lexical diversity for adults with and without aphasia across discourse elicitation tasks /Gerasimos Fergadiotis and Heather Harris Wright -- “Better but no cigar”: Persons with aphasia speak about their speech /Davida Fromm, Audrey Holland, Elizabeth Armstrong, Margaret Forbes, Brian MacWhinney, Amy Risko, and Nicole Mattison.

About the author

Heather Wright

Summary

First published in 2012. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor and Francis, an informa company.

Product details

• Authors: Heather Wright, Heather Harris Wright
• Assisted by: Heather Wright (Editor), Wright Heather (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9781138403918
• ISBN: 978-1-138-40391-8
• No. of pages: 170
• Series: Special Issues of Aphasiology
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; PSYCHOLOGY / Neuropsychology, MEDICAL / Audiology & Speech Pathology, PSYCHOLOGY / Physiological Psychology, Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Speech and language disorders and therapy, Speech & language disorders & therapy