Wilkinson-etal2010

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Wilkinson-etal2010
BibType ARTICLE
Key Wilkinson-etal2010
Author(s) Ray Wilkinson, Suzanne Beeke, Jane Maxim
Title Formulating actions and events with limited linguistic resources: enactment and iconicity in agrammatic aphasic talk
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Tag(s) EMCA, Agrammatic Aphasia
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Year 2010
Language English
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Journal Research on Language and Social Interaction
Volume 43
Number 1
Pages 57–84
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DOI 10.1080/08351810903471506
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Abstract

In this article a conversation analytic approach is used to investigate the form and use of enactment by speakers with agrammatic aphasia in talk-in-interaction. Enactment here refers to the employment by participants of direct reported speech and/or other behavior such as the use of gesture/body movement and/or prosody to iconically depict some aspects of reported scenes or events. The enactment of these speakers is notable in terms of the distinctive grammatical practices within which it is regularly produced (e.g., without any reporting verb such as say) and a reliance on kinesic enactment and simple lexical forms produced as seconds, i.e., reactions or second pair-part responses such as oh, no, and oh no. It is argued that enactment and other instances of iconicity within interaction as produced by these aphasic speakers are examples of interactional methods adopted by them in order to formulate actions and events in talk using the limited lexical and grammatical resources at their disposal, and some similarities to other types of language use such as child language and pidgins are noted.

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