Goodwin C. (Ed.) Conversation and Brain Damage

Oxford University Press, 2003. — 326 p. — ISBN: 0195129539.How do people with brain damage communicate? How does the partial or total loss of the ability to speak and use language fluently manifest itself in actual conversation? How are people with brain damage able to expand their cognitive ability through interaction with others - and how do these discursive activities in turn influence cognition?
This groundbreaking collection of new articles examines the ways in which aphasia and other neurological deficits lead to language impairments that shape the production, reception and processing of language. Edited by noted linguistic anthropologist Charles Goodwin and with contributions from a wide range of international scholars, the articles provide a pragmatic and interactive perspective on the types of challenges that face aphasic speakers in any given act of communication.
Conversation and Brain Damage will be invaluable to linguists, discourse analysts, linguistic and medical anthropologists, speech therapists, neurologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, workers in mental health care and in public health, sociologists, and readers interested in the long-term implications of brain damage.General perspectivesConversation Analysis and Communication Disorders
Making meaning together
Adapting to Conversation: On the Use of Linguistic Resources by Speakers with Fluent Aphasia in the Construction of Turns at Talk
Conversational Frameworks for the Accomplishment of Meaning in Aphasia
Collaborating in Aphasic Group Conversation: Striving for Mutual Understanding
Repair
Negotiating Repair in Aphasic Conversation: Interactional Issues
Collaborative Construction of Repair in Aphasic Conversation: An Interactive View on the Extended Speaking Turns of Persons with Wernicke’s Aphasia
Own Words: On Achieving Normality through Paraphasias
Word Searches in Aphasia: A Study of the Collaborative Responses of Communicative Partners
Interaction and assessment
Aphasic Agrammatism as Interactional Artifact and Achievement
Co-Constructing Lucy: Adding a Social Perspective to the Assessment of Communicative Success in Aphasia