Pragmatic Impairment

Perkins, Michael

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511486555

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“…Although Grice's analysis has been useful for describing certain types of pragmatic impairment, it is not all that useful for explaining them. Imagine, in an example adapted from Perkins (2007), that a therapist asks her client, "Can you tell me what you did this weekend?" and the client replies, "Yes."…”

Section: Grice's Principle Of Cooperationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Increasingly, however, there is a realisation that meaning is not only transmitted in telegraph form from a speaker to a hearer: meaning is often, if not usually, co-constructed between participants engaged in dialogue (Goodwin & Heritage, 1990). This may be of particular importance when trying to make sense of conversations between healthy people and people with a communication impairment (Goodwin, 1995;Perkins, 2007).…”

Section: Relevance Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Pragmatics as an emergent phenomenon Perkins (1998Perkins ( , 2005aPerkins ( , 2005bPerkins ( , 2007 discusses the need to treat pragmatics not as a faculty within the individual, but rather as an emergent phenomenon generated by the necessity for two (or more) people to communicate. In this view, pragmatics is what happens when two people use the resources available to them to successfully carry out a joint communicative action.…”

Section: Relevance Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the remainder of this article I suggest that the emergentist perspective proposed by Perkins (2007) can provide researchers with a useful framework for investigating the nature and causes of pragmatic impairment in RHD, and I propose three areas that this approach might naturally lead to.…”

Section: Pragmatic Theories In Clinical Settingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although the majority of this research has focused on people with aphasia, these techniques have also been used with a variety of clinical groups, including people with autism, dementia, Down's syndrome and William's syndrome (Perkins, 2007 WEED studies using conversation analysis techniques to investigate the nature of conversations with people with RHD, although Barnes and Armstrong (2010) have made a compelling case for applying the technique to this clinical group.…”

Section: Pragmatics In Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

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What's left to learn about right hemisphere damage and pragmatic impairment?

Weed

2011

Aphasiology

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Background:The nature and causes of pragmatic impairments following right hemisphere damage (RHD) continue to pose a challenge to researchers and clinicians. It is widely accepted that impairment in pragmatic and para-linguistic aspects of language can result from unilateral damage to the right hemisphere (RH), but it still uncertain exactly what the RH's special contributions to these areas of language and communication is. Advancing our understanding of the RH's role in pragmatics and communication will require a theoretical framework for pragmatics that is suited to the clinical environment. Aims: I first sketch several theoretical approaches to pragmatics, and suggest that Perkins' (2007) emergentist approach to pragmatics is the best suited to describing and explaining communication difficulties in a clinical setting. I then consider some of the implications of adopting the emergentist approach for research on pragmatic impairment in RHD by describing three relatively unexplored areas of research in the domain of RHD and pragmatics: application of conversation analysis techniques, investigation of the contribution of perceptual impairments to pragmatic impairment, and the comparison of pragmatic impairment across clinical groups. Main Contribution: I propose that the emergentist approach to pragmatics provides a useful framework for investigating issues of pragmatic impairment in RHD and other clinical groups, and show how adopting this approach naturally leads to research in three relatively unexplored areas. Conclusions: I argue that pursuing these lines of investigation will help move forward research in RHD, pragmatic impairment, and the general role of the right hemisphere in pragmatics.

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Section: Grice's Principle Of Cooperationmentioning

confidence: 99%