Written discourse and acquired brain impairment: Evaluation of structural and semantic features of personal letters from a Systemic Functional Linguistic perspective

Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics

Volumn 19, Issue 3 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 227-247

  Mortensen, Lynne ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acquired brain impairment; Aphasia; Cognitive language disorder; Sociolinguistics; Written discourse

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APHASIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE TEST; LETTER; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; STROKE; WRITING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN INJURIES; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; CORRESPONDENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NARRATION; SEMANTICS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 17244381589     PISSN: 02699206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699200410001698652     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Armstrong, E. (2002). Variation in the discourse of non-brain-damaged speakers on a clinical task. Aphasiology, 16, 647-658.
2. Barton, D., & Hall, N. (1999). Letter writing as a social practice. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
3. Barton, D., & Padmore, S. (1991). Roles, networks and values in everyday writing. In D. Barton, & R. Ivanic (Eds.), Writing in the community (pp. 59-77). London: Sage.
4. Beukelman, D. R., & Yorkston, K. M. (1991). Traumatic brain injury changes the way we live. In D. R. Beukelman, & K. M. Yorkston (Eds.), Communication disorders following traumatic brain injury. Austin, TX: Pro-Ed.
5. Biber, D. (1988). Variation across speech and writing. New York: Cambridge University Press.
6. Bloom, R. L., Borod, J. C., Obler, L. K., & Gerstmann, L. J. (1993). Suppression and facilitation of pragmatic performance: Effects of emotional content on discourse following right and left brain damage. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 36, 1227-1235.
7. Butt, D. G. (2000). Semantic cycles: Structure statements at the level of meaning. In D. G. Butt, & C. M. I. M. Matthiessen (Eds.), The meaning potential of language: Mapping meaning systematically. Mimeo (pp. 228-233). Sydney: Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University.
8. Chapman, S. B., & Lawyer, S. L. (1997). Recovery of written discourse abilities in children following closed head injury at three and twelve months post injury. Paper presented at the meeting of the Texas Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Austin, TX.
9. Chapman, S. B., Levin, H. S., & Lawyer, S. L. (1999). Communication problems resulting from brain injury in children: Special issues of assessment and management. In S. McDonald, L. Togher, & C. Code (Eds.), Communication disorders following traumatic brain injury (pp. 235-269). London: Psychology Press.
10. Coelho, C. A. (1995). Discourse production deficits following traumatic brain injury: A critical review of the recent literature. Aphasiology, 9, 409-429.
11. Coelho, C. A., Liles, B. Z., Duffy, R. J., Clarkson, J. V., & Elia, D. (1994). Conversational patterns of aphasic, closed head injured, and normal speakers. Clinical Aphasiology, 21, 183-191.
12. Davis, G. A. (2000). Aphasiology: Disorders and clinical practice. Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
13. Freedman-Stern, R. B., Ulatowska, H. K., Baker, T., & Delacoste, C. (1984). Disruption of written language in aphasia: A case study. Brain and Language, 22, 181-205.
14. Goodglass, H., & Kaplan, E. (1983). Boston Diagnostic Examination for Aphasia. Philadelphia, PA: Lea & Febiger.
15. Hagen, C. (1984). Language disorders in head trauma. In A. Holland (Ed.), Language disorders in adults (pp. 245-281). San Diego, CA: College-Hill.
16. Halliday, M. A. K. (1978). Language as social semiotic. London: Edward Arnold.
17. Halliday, M. A. K. (1985a). Spoken and written language Geelong: Deakin University Press. [Reprinted in London: Oxford University Press, 1989].
18. Halliday, M. A. K. (1985b). Register variation. In M. A. K. Halliday, & R. Hasan (Eds.), Language, context, and text: Aspects of language in a social-semiotic perspective. Geelong: Deakin University Press.
19. Halliday, M. A. K. (1994). An introduction to functional grammar (2nd ed.). London: Edward Arnold.
20. Halliday, M. A. K. (1996). On grammar and grammatics. In R. Hasan, C. Cloran, & D. Butt (Eds.), Functional descriptions: Theory in practice (pp. 1-38). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
21. Halliday, M. A. K., & Matthiessen, C. M. I. M. (1999). Construing experience through meaning: A language-based approach to cognition. London: Cassell.
22. Hartley, L. (1995). Cognitive-communication abilities following brain injury: A functional approach. San Diego, CA: Singular.
23. Hasan, R. (1978). Text in the systemic-functional model. In W. U. Dressler (Ed.), Current trends in textlinguistics (pp. 228-246). Berlin: de Gruyter.
24. Hasan, R. (1996). The nursery tale as genre. In D. Butt, C. Cloran, & G. Williams (Eds.), Ways of saying: Ways of meaning. Selected papers of Ruqaiya Hasan (pp. 51-72). London: Cassell.
25. Hasan, R., & Perrett, G. (1994). Learning to function with the other tongue: A systemic functional perspective on second language learning. In T. Olin (Ed.), Perspectives on pedagogical grammar. New York: Cambridge University Press.
26. Holland, A. L. (1982). When is aphasia aphasia? The problem of closed head injury. In R. H. Brookshire (Ed.), Clinical aphasiology conference proceedings (pp. 345-349). Minneapolis, MN: BRK Publishers.
27. Ivask, I. (1990). The letter: A dying art. World literature today, 64, 213-214.
28. Matthiessen, C. M. I. M., & Halliday, M. A. K. (1997). Systemic functional grammar: A first step into the theory. Sydney: Macquarie University.
29. Mortensen, L. (2003). Reconstructing the writer: Acquired brain impairment and letters of community membership, Unpublished PhD thesis, Macquarie University, Sydney.
30. Parr, S. (1995). Everyday reading and writing in aphasia: Role change and the influence of pre-morbid literacy practice. Aphasiology, 3, 223-238.
31. Prigatano, G. P., Roueche, J. R., & Fordyce, D. J. (1985). Nonaphasic language disturbances after closed head injury. Language Sciences, 7, 217-229.
32. Searle, J. R. (1969). Speech acts. London: Cambridge University Press.
33. Ulatowska, H. K., & Sadowska, M. (1988). Features of agrammatism in Polish: A case study. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 3 77-88.
34. Ulatowska, H. K., Baker, T., & Freedman-Stern, R. (1979). Disruption of written language in aphasia. In H. Whitaker, & H. A. Whitaker (Eds.), Studies in neurolinguistics (pp. 241-268). New York: Academic Press.
35. Ulatowska, H. K., Hildebrand, B. H., & Haynes, S. M. (1978). A comparison of written and spoken language in aphasia. In R. H. Brookeshire (Ed.), Clinical aphasiology conference proceedings (pp. 223-235). Minneapolis, MN: BRK Publishers.
36. Ulatowska, H. K., North, A. J., & Macaluso-Haynes, S. (1981). Production of narrative and procedureal discourse in aphasia. Brain and Language, 13, 345-371.
37. Ulatowska, H. K., Weiss-Doyell, A., Freedman-Stern, R., & Macaluso-Haynes, S. (1983). Production of narrative discourse in aphasia. Brain and Language, 19, 317-334.
38. Wilson, B. M. (2002). Written discourse of adolescents with closed head injury. Brain Injury, 16, 1011-1024.