Grammatical Complexity in Letters Written by People with Acquired Brain Impairment

Autor/in	Mortensen, Lynne
Titel	Grammatical Complexity in Letters Written by People with Acquired Brain Impairment
Quelle	In: Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, (2005) 19, S.87-102 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0155-0640
Schlagwörter	Sociocultural Patterns; Neurological Impairments; Grammar; Written Language; Brain; Writing Skills; Linguistic Theory; Head Injuries; Control Groups; Comparative Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Soziokulturelle Theorie; Neurodegenerative Erkrankung; Grammatik; Geschriebene Sprache; Gehirn; Writing skill; Schreibfertigkeit; Linguistische Theorie; Kopfverletzung
Abstract	This study investigated written language in the form of personal and formal letters written by 10 people who sustained a stroke and 10 people who sustained traumatic brain injury, and compared their performance with 15 non brain-damaged people. In order to explore the writing skills of these individuals from a sociocultural perspective, a functional linguistic theory, Systemic Functional Linguistics, was adopted as the framework for analysis. Features of grammatical complexity were examined to ascertain the differential demands of the two text types on the writers' language resources, and the impact of stroke and traumatic brain injury on participants' writing abilities. Results of the analysis revealed patterns of both strength and deficit in the groups with acquired brain impairment. Variation as a feature of "disordered" and "normal" performance is highlighted and clinical implications discussed. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10