Download PDFOpen PDF in browserMeasuring Pragmatic Competence of Discourse Output Among Chinese-Speaking Individuals with Traumatic Brain InjuryEasyChair Preprint 64322 pages•Date: August 27, 2021AbstractIntroduction This study aimed to examine how pragmatic competence may be impaired and reflected in the discourse produced by Chinese-speaking TBI survivors. Moreover, whether (and which) discourse production task can be more sensitive and clinically effective to highlight pragmatic impairments in TBI would be explored. Methods Language samples of 5 discourse tasks, produced by 10 TBI survivors (5 Cantonese and 5 Mandarin speakers) and 10 controls matched in age and education, were extracted from the unpublished Chinese TBI-Bank. These genres included a single picture description ‘Cat Rescue’, a multiple-picture description ‘Refused Umbrella’, a story-telling ‘Cry Wolf’, a procedural discourse ‘Egg and Ham Sandwich’, and a personal narrative (i.e., monologue) ‘An Important Event’. Each sample was analyzed with 16 indices, which were further categorized in terms of Grice’s Maxim (Grice, 1975):
The association between pragmatic measures and the types of discourse, amount of visual supports, and TBI survivors’ severity of language impairment and cognitive deficits will also be assessed. Results The final results will allow us to examine pragmatic deficits in TBI and to compare the manifestation across different genres. Keyphrases: Chinese, aphasia, discourse, pragmatics, traumatic brain injury
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