Language, meaning, context, and functional communication

Armstrong, Elizabeth; Ferguson, Alison

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“…This expression of the narrator's attitudes and opinions creates interpersonal meaning (Armstrong & Ferguson, 2010). The narrator expresses his/her attitudes and opinions through narrative by (1) selecting to tell only those stories deemed to be significant or "worth telling"; and (2) highlighting or adding prominence to select information within the narrative to make one's point.…”

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“…These functions include both the referential function of narratives and the evaluative function, which entail coherence of both referential and evaluative content. In sum, language is one set of meaningmaking resources (Armstrong & Ferguson, 2010) that combines with other resources to achieve communicative functions through discourse.…”

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“…It is also important to consider the contexts in which these resources and strategies are successfully tapped, as tools for social meaning making (Armstrong & Ferguson, 2010). Finally, whatever the means of sampling and analysing discourse, clinical researchers should scrutinise the ecological validity of their research designs by explicitly addressing the way in which their sampling and analysis reflects functional use of discourse in naturalistic contexts.…”

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Personal narratives in aphasia: Coherence in the context of use

Olness

Ulatowska²

2011

Aphasiology

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Background: Discourse functionality is a primary goal of aphasia assessment and intervention. People who have aphasia often display a paradoxical functionality in their production of discourse, despite their aphasic impairment. A variety of linguistic and non-linguistic resources are orchestrated to produce coherent discourse. One discourse genre, the personal story, is ubiquitous and fills important intrapersonal and interpersonal functions. Aims: The primary objective is to provide a framework for the structure and function of personal stories, to guide future clinical discourse research towards development of practical clinical assessment of discourse functionality in people who have aphasia. Main Contribution: Characteristics of personal stories in their context of use are discussed for their contributions to overall discourse coherence. Examples of coherent and incoherent personal stories narrated by people who have aphasia illustrate interactions among coherence-building resources. The influence of group contexts and cultural contexts on coherence of personal stories is considered. Conclusions: It is the interaction, and not the componential addition, of multiple resources that supports coherent production of personal stories in context. Qualitative frameworks need to be integrated with quantitative approaches as we develop reliable and valid means of functional discourse assessment. An understanding of the lives of people who have aphasia will be essential for defining the most meaningful and functional contexts for our discourse assessments.

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Ulatowska²

2011

Aphasiology

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“…Each factor is the focal point of a relation, or function that operates between the message and the factor. The functions are: referential, emotive, conative, phatic, poetic, and metalingual [12]. Rhetorical theory focuses on the techniques of using language effectively and persuasively in spoken form [13].…”

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Linguistic Analysis of Commercial Sex Workers’ Language of Negotiation

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Subayno²,

Suan³

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IJLLL

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Abstract-Language has been used for many reasons, and one of which is for negotiation. Commercial sex workers have employed language that is distinct and rhetorical for negotiation purposes. Moral concern may be posed in the investigation of these workers' language of negotiation, but the promotion of sex commerce is not the aim of the study. The goal of this study is to appreciate how linguistic features contribute to a register used by a particular group of people, specifically, the commercial sex workers in Cebu, Philippines. In extracting the meaning of their language of negotiation through processing the morphology, semantics, functions, and rhetorical devices, this study offers a way of understanding this marginal and despised group in the Philippine context. Index Terms-Commercial sex workers, connotation through images, functions of language, language of negotiation, linguistic analysis, morphologic analysis, rhetorical devices.

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“…The measurement of talk time of people with aphasia in everyday life has high verisimiltude, as it is the direct measurement of the actual behaviour being investigated. The verbal communication people use in everyday life is highly contextualised and inherently different from that used in the therapy room (Armstrong & Mortensen, 2006;Armstrong & Ferguson, 2010). Communication may be with a number of different communication partners, for many purposes and in many environments.…”

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Performance-based measurement of participation for people with aphasia: using an iPhone application to measure talking time in everyday life

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People with aphasia often experience reduced participation in life roles as a result of their communication disorder. The aims of this thesis were to 1) develop an iPhone application (CommFit™) which measures talk time and was easily used by people with aphasia, and 2) to use the app to explore talk time as a possible performance based indicator of participation, as a supplement to currently used self-report measures. This thesis used the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) as a framework for defining participation and structuring the research.The first (preparatory) phase of this thesis involved reviewing the current state of research in the areas of participation assessment and mobile technology use, in order to inform development of the CommFit™ app. In the first stage of preparation, the concept of participation was reviewed and current self-report measures of participation restriction were crosswalked to ICF categories. Ninety instruments (2,426 items) were coded and of these, 29 instruments contained over 50% participation items. The crosswalk showed that many of the current measures for this population are not participation focused, according to the operational definition of participation developed in this thesis. The Subjective Index of Physical and Social Outcome (SIPSO) emerged from this study as a measure which contained mostly participation content, had been validated with a stroke population, and was appropriate in both format and time required to be used by people with language difficulties. Thus, the SIPSO chosen as the measure of participation for use in the second phase of this research.The second stage of the preparatory phase consisted of a review of the use of mobile technology by people with aphasia, stroke survivors and elderly people. The review focused on synthesising the literature into a list of technology design features that facilitate technology use for this population.These features were; use of multimodal communication, utilisation of aphasia-friendly text features, large buttons, stable interface, simple navigation and lack of visual clutter. These features were integrated into the design and development of an iPhone app which measured talk time-the CommFit™ app.The last stage of the preparatory phase involved a small but in depth study investigating the development and accuracy of CommFit™. The iterative process of developing the CommFit™ app to be aphasia-friendly was described in detail. In the accuracy study, the talk time logged by the app was compared to talk time obtained from a continuous recording. Three non-neurologically ii impaired participants who recorded their daily talk for a total of 10 hours in different environments.Accuracy of the app was found to be satisfactory at ±4% of the true talking time in ideal or silent environments and ±13% in everyday environments. The end result of the preparatory phase was a valid, usable app for counting talk time.The second phase of this research explored the use of CommFit™ to count ...

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Language, meaning, context, and functional communication

Cited by 66 publications

References 64 publications

Personal narratives in aphasia: Coherence in the context of use

Personal narratives in aphasia: Coherence in the context of use

Linguistic Analysis of Commercial Sex Workers’ Language of Negotiation

Performance-based measurement of participation for people with aphasia: using an iPhone application to measure talking time in everyday life

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