Background: Discourse abilities play an important role in the assessment, classification, and
therapy outcome evaluation of people with aphasia. Discourse production in aphasia has …

In recent years, there has been a rapid increase in the number of people with aphasia due to
brain lesions worldwide, which has prompted researchers to carry out in-depth studies on …

Abstract English for vocational purposes (EVP), under the umbrella of English for specific
purposes (ESP), has gained its prominence because more and more English language …

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 …

Emojis, or pictographs that supplement or replace written language, have become
ubiquitous in contemporary communication, including emoji marketing. Drawing on insights …

Background Speech of individuals with non-fluent, including Broca's, aphasia is often
characterized as “agrammatic” because their output mostly consists of nouns and, to a lesser …

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

Purpose The purposes of this study are to provide clinicians and researchers with
introductory psychometric data for the main concept analysis (MCA), a measure of discourse …

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 …

Objectives To define effective communication and identify its key elements specific to
critically ill patients with an artificial airway. Design A modified Consensus Development …