Goodwin2004a

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Goodwin2004a
BibType ARTICLE
Key Goodwin2004a
Author(s) Charles Goodwin
Title A Competent Speaker Who Can't Speak: The Social Life of Aphasia
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Tag(s) medical EMCA, aphasia
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Year 2004
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Journal Journal of Linguistic Anthropology
Volume 14
Number 2
Pages 151–170
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DOI 10.1525/jlin.2004.14.2.151
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Abstract

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 complex story, by linking his limited talk and embodied action to the talk and action of others. This suggests a view of what it means to be a speaker that does not take as its point of departure the mental life and symbolic competence of the individual, but instead focuses on the practices required to participate in the public processes of sign exchange that constitute talk as a primordial site for human social life.

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