Use of politeness markers with different communication partners: An investigation of five subjects with traumatic brain injury

Togher, Leanne; Hand, Linda

doi:10.1080/02687039808249571

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“…We measured politeness in discourse with the VET language samples using an exchange structure analysis procedure described by Togher and colleagues. 62,63 Language samples were analyzed for mood and modality markers reflecting politeness. 2,64,65 Linguistic markers for politeness included finite modal verbs (e.g., will, would, and could) and comment adjuncts (e.g., please, hopefully, and unfortunately).…”

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Job stability in skilled work and communication ability after moderate–severe traumatic brain injury

Meulenbroek

Turkstra

2015

Disability and Rehabilitation

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Purpose Communication deficits may play a critical role in maintaining employment after traumatic brain injury (TBI), but links between specific communication deficits and employment outcomes have not been determined. This study identified communication measures that distinguished stably employed versus unstably employed adults with TBI. Methods Participants were 31 adults with moderate-severe TBI who were employed full-time for at least 12 consecutive months before injury in skilled jobs and had attempted return to skilled jobs after injury. Sixteen had achieved stable employment (SE) post-injury, defined as full-time employment for ≥12 consecutive months; and 15 had unstable (UE) employment. Participants completed a battery of communication tests identified in a prior qualitative study of communication skills required for skilled work. Results Measures of spoken language comprehension, verbal reasoning, social inference, reading, and politeness in spoken discourse significantly discriminated between SE and UE groups. Two nested models were completed and compared. The first model excluded discourse data because of missing data for two UE and one SE participant. This model revealed that measures of verbal reasoning speed (β = −0.18, p = 0.05) and social inference (β = 0.19, p = 0.05) were predictive independent of the overall model. The second model included discourse data and was a better overall predictor of group membership (Likelihood ratio test, Model 1: 3.824, Model 2: 2.865). Conclusion Communication measures were positively associated with stable employment in skilled jobs after TBI. Clinicians should include assessment of communication for adults attempting return to work after TBI, paying specific attention to social inference and speed of verbal reasoning skills.

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Job stability in skilled work and communication ability after moderate–severe traumatic brain injury

Meulenbroek

Turkstra

2015

Disability and Rehabilitation

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“…While these arguments certainly have merit, the features of 'RHBD clinical/unfamiliar interaction' will be better elucidated by developing an account of 'RHBD everyday/familiar interaction' with which it can be compared and contrasted. As such, the linguistic and interactional patterns utilized during conversations with a clinician/researcher/unfamiliar need to be investigated in-their-ownright for RHBD (see Lindsay and Wilkinson, 1999;Laakso, 2003, for example, regarding aphasia; see Togher and Hand, 1998, regarding traumatic brain injury).…”

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Conversation after right hemisphere brain damage: Motivations for applying conversation analysis

Barnes

Armstrong

2009

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics

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Despite the well documented pragmatic deficits that can arise subsequent to Right Hemisphere Brain Damage (RHBD), few researchers have directly studied everyday conversations involving people with RHBD. In recent years, researchers have begun applying Conversation Analysis (CA) to the everyday talk of people with aphasia. This research programme has provided novel insights into the complex inter-relationship between impairment, language use, and interactional organization. This paper will argue that the detailed, inductive approach of CA is well suited to investigating pragmatic communication disorders resulting from RHBD, and will help to elaborate previous findings about RHBD and conversation. In particular, this paper will review and discuss previous investigations of conversation after RHBD, and put forward arguments relating to how CA might be applied to talk-in-interaction involving people with RHBD.

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“…Togher"s work (as discussed previously) has also demonstrated the substantial effects of partners" role (information giver or receiver) and status (family member, clinician, member of police force) on the communication of individuals with cognitive-communication disability following traumatic brain injury (Togher & Hand, 1998;Togher et al, 1997a).…”

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Language, meaning, context, and functional communication

Armstrong

Ferguson

2010

Aphasiology

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Use of politeness markers with different communication partners: An investigation of five subjects with traumatic brain injury

Cited by 36 publications

References 17 publications

Job stability in skilled work and communication ability after moderate–severe traumatic brain injury

Job stability in skilled work and communication ability after moderate–severe traumatic brain injury

Conversation after right hemisphere brain damage: Motivations for applying conversation analysis

Language, meaning, context, and functional communication

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