Linguistic characteristics of AAC discourse in the workplace

Discourse Studies

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 279-298

  Friginal, Eric ^a   Pearson, Pamela ^a   Di Ferrante, Laura ^b   Pickering, Lucy ^b   Bruce, Carrie ^c  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY COMMERCE   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Augmentative and alternative communication devices; communication impairments; corpus linguistics; discourse analysis; multidimensional analysis; workplace discourse

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878931874     PISSN: 14614456     EISSN: 14617080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461445613480586     Document Type: Article

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