Formulating Actions and Events With Limited Linguistic Resources: Enactment and Iconicity in Agrammatic Aphasic Talk

Reenactments in conversation: Gaze and recipiency

“…head, torso, eye gaze) to depict the postures or actions of a character (Aarons and Morgan, 2003;Liddell and Metzger, 1998;Metzger, 1995, among others). Wilkinson et al (2010), in their discussion of speakers with agrammatic aphasia re-presenting previous events, use the term 'enactment'. We appreciate and build on their embracing of the bodily-visual aspects of 'reported speech', and choose to follow Sidnell in using the related term 'reenactment'.…”

O uso do discurso reportado direto por uma pessoa com afasia na construção de uma narrativa

“…In addition, participants who interact with people with aphasia need to be more tolerant, giving them a longer time to produce their utterances, i.e., they should maximize the turns of speech of these individuals. This maximization of turns in conversations of people with aphasia is clearly in contrast to the organization of common conversations and their preference for turn minimization, which calls for the cooperation of those who interact with these individuals 5 .…”

“…The corpus of such masters research, from which the narrative analyzed here was extracted, was generated in 2007 and consists of approximately 15 hours of video recordings (in a properly equipped laboratory of research, belonging to the Institute of Human Sciences at UFJF, with documented authorization by the director of the institute) of face-to-face conversations involving people with and without aphasia, transcribed according to the conventions of transcription proposed by Gail Jefferson in 2002, with some adaptations (5)(6)(7)(8) , which are in Figure 1, at the end of the article. One of the narratives that are part of this corpus was then selected to be analyzed in this study from a qualitative research perspective and anchored in a perspective that fits into the theoretical and methodological framework of interactional approaches in Linguistics.…”

“…formal or informal) 3 can be considered the decisive factor for this choice. Many scholars argue that the telegraph style showed by people with aphasia is an adaptation to the language deficit, and therefore they consider that these individuals get around their problems in formulating elaborate expressions (e.g., such as complex sentences) by simplifying their messages, in such a way that they can be processed by the impaired syntactic component (according to the authors) [3][4][5][6] . In line with this way of understanding the linguistic manifestations of people with aphasia, this article considers the use of direct reported speech by the study participant as a strategy of simplification and adaptation, commonly used by people with aphasia 7,8 in order to deal with the construction of meaning in the "here and now" of the interaction.…”

Diante das limitações linguísticas de um paciente afásico: a interlocutora-terapeuta como conarradora

“…WILkINSON et al, 2010WILkINSON et al, , 2007PENN, 1987;GOLdSTEIN, 1939GOLdSTEIN, , 1948JACkSON, 1931) Torna-se relevante destacar que, mesmo interessados em compreender as construções discursivas de pessoas com afasia, conforme consideram heeschen e Schegloff (2003), não podemos transformar seres humanos em meros usuários da língua por, presumidamente, pertencerem a um grupo que apresenta desordens da linguagem. Os autores destacam que, na vida cotidiana, podemos de fato ver quem, além de afásicos, são essas pessoas, ou melhor, quem ou o que elas estão sendo e como elas são o que são, e com isso compreender o que, em relação a uma pessoa com afasia de Broca, é afásico e o que não é.…”