Aphasia is an impairment of language caused by acquired brain damage such as stroke or
traumatic brain injury, that affects a person's ability to communicate effectively. The aim of …

Human society is organised through communicative interactions between co-present
people. Speech pathology (SP) assessment and intervention strategies aim to access these …

Critical discourse analysis (CDA) brings the critical tradition of social analysis into language
studies and contributes to critical social analysis a particular focus on discourse and on …

The chapter presents a perspective on discourse analysis from systemic functional
linguistics (SFL), a theory and set of analytic tools developed by Michael Halliday as an …

Background: In the 1970s Audrey Holland first emphasised the importance of “functional
communication” rather than “linguistic accuracy” for individuals with aphasia, noting that they …

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) can seriously disrupt the social and communication skills that
are basic requirements for everyday life. It is the loss of these interpersonal skills that can be …

Background: The progressive interest in social activities within the life and clinical efforts of
persons with aphasia makes it necessary to focus more clinical attention on conversation as …

Abstract Objective. The Nun Study showed that lower linguistic ability in young adulthood,
measured by idea density (ID), increased the risk of dementia in late life. The present study …

Aphasic discourse has been investigated through two major approaches: a micro-linguistic
approach and a macro one, but the separate analysis of the micro and macro aspects of …

Those working on the description of disordered speech are bound to be also involved with
clinical phonology to some extent. This is because interpreting the speech signal is only the …