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Fluency and aphasia: A pragmatic reconsideration
South African Journal of Communication Disorders | Vol 30, No 1 | a656 |
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/sajcd.v30i1.656
| © 2019 Claire Penn
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Submitted: 06 August 2019 | Published: 31 December 1983
Submitted: 06 August 2019 | Published: 31 December 1983
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Claire Penn, Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, University of the Witwatersrand, South AfricaFull Text:
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The fluency behaviour of fourteen aphasic patients was investigated within a communicative framework. As part of an overall pragmatic analysis, judges were required to rate the subjects' fluency behaviour as to their appropriateness within the context of interactive discourse. Results indicated differences between subjects which related consistently neither to the classificatory type of aphasia nor to severity. Implications regarding the characterisation of fluency and its utility as a classifcatory concept are discussed.
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