" SPPARC" highlights the importance of working with partners in order to create real life
change both for partners and for people with aphasia." The SPPARC" pack consists of a …

Background: Aphasia has very serious consequences for speech production and, hence, for
communication in daily life. Nevertheless, in the standard diagnostic procedures and in …

Talk is a central activity in social life. But how is ordinary talk organized? How do people
coordinate their talk in interaction? And what is the role of talk in wider social processes …

This is a vocabulary research manual. It aims to give you the background knowledge
necessary to design rigorous and effective research studies into the behavior of L1 and L2 …

This article examines how a man able to speak only three words because of a severe stroke
is nonetheless able to act as a competent speaker, indeed position himself as the teller of a …

This chapter investigates the production of individual utterances as multiparty activities,
something done through the collaborative actions of both a speaker and a hearer. It looks at …

In this article I review conversation analytic work on “atypical interaction”—social interactions
where a participant has a communicative impairment. Drawing together some of the main …

Conversation Analysis (CA) is both an established research area and research methodology
in the social sciences (Atkinson and Heritage, 1984, Heritage, 1984, Levinson, 1983 …

Title. The use of conversational analysis: nurse–patient interaction in communication
disability after stroke. Aim. This paper is a report of a study to explore how nursing staff and …

Background. Having a 'theory of mind'(ToM) means that one appreciates one's own and
others' mental states, and that this appreciation guides interactions with others. It has been …