Conversational discourse analysis as a method for evaluating progress in aphasia: a case report

Boles, Larry

doi:10.1016/s0021-9924(98)00005-7

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“…288,[300][301][302] Behaviours of the participants within the conversations, such as repair and contribution of words to the conversation, were identified and frequency counts of the behaviour of interest presented. 300,301,303 Rutter, 300 in a pilot study of three participants with multiple sclerosis, explored the combined use of qualitative and quantitative measures in describing the conversation of people with dysarthria. Specifically, he proposed the use of quantification in the assessment of repair and speaking time for people with communication disorders.…”

Section: Methods For Describing Conversation Behaviourmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Another example of quantification of conversational features was provided by the work of Boles 301,303 in his studies of dyads involving a person with aphasia. Contribution of words to conversation, words per utterance, and self-repair behaviour for people with aphasia and their communication partners were reported as counts per minute of speaking time.…”

Section: Methods For Describing Conversation Behaviourmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The communication partners' speaking rate was slower and their repair behaviour and total word count were reduced. 301,303 Similarly, Ferguson 302 used counts of the features of turn taking and repair to describe the conversations of people with aphasia. Two people with aphasia conversed with each other, an unfamiliar clinician, a lay speaker, and a familiar clinician.…”

Section: Methods For Describing Conversation Behaviourmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…300,301,303,306,307 The feasibility of quantifying overlap, repair, talking time, and topic setting in the communication disordered population has been established. 288,300,302,303,310 However, in the initial exploration of conversational behaviours, the inductive nature of CA allows for new phenomena to be observed 291 and for problems in interaction to be revealed by participant reaction rather than researcher judgement. 307 As such, CA reveals conversational behaviours of interest, that can then be quantified in order to enable comparison between participants and across time.…”

Section: Methods For Describing Conversation Behaviourmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The relative number of words contributed by each member of the dyad was also calculated, and made uniform by calculating a speaker's words per minute of sample time. 303 The ratio of words spoken for each sample by PD participants compared with the researcher was also calculated.…”

Section: Contribution To the Conversationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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