Effect of referential speech steps in discourse construction in patients with severe traumatic brain injury.

Sandra González (1) , Sandra Karadza (1) , Maud Champagne-Lavau (2) , Amélie Achim (3) , Marion Fossard (4, 1)

1 Institut des sciences du langage et de la communication (Neuchâtel, Suisse)
2 LPL - Laboratoire Parole et Langage
3 CRULRG - Centre de recherche Université Laval Robert Giffard
4 UNINE - Université de Neuchâtel = University of Neuchatel

Patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) often display communicative deficits. In particular, their discourse has been described as globally little informative and poorly organized [1]. In this study, we used a referential communication paradigm with a new storytelling in sequence task [2] designed specifically to explore the referential behavior of participants engaged in a verbal interaction situation. More precisely, the present study aims to investigate the construction of a mutual knowledge through the differentiated use of reference markers (anaphoric pronouns, definite and indefinite markers) according to different referential speech steps.

Mots clés: Traumatic brain injury; discourse; reference markers

Domaines: Linguistique; Psychologie et comportements; Neurosciences

Sandra González, Sandra Karadza, Maud Champagne-Lavau, Amélie Achim, Marion Fossard. Effect of referential speech steps in discourse construction in patients with severe traumatic brain injury.. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2013, 51st Conference of the Academy-of-Aphasia Oct 2013 Lucerne, 94, pp.151-152. ⟨10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.09.074⟩. ⟨hal-01486707⟩