Casual conversations between individuals with traumatic brain injury and their friends

Brain Injury

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 221-233

  Bogart, Elise ^a   Togher, Leanne ^a   Power, Emma ^a   Docking, Kimberley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

communication; conversation; discourse; exchange structure analysis; friendship; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERSATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FRIEND; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

EID: 84857852054     PISSN: 02699052     EISSN: 1362301X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02699052.2011.648711     Document Type: Article

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