de Beer, Carola, Carragher, Marcella, van Nispen, Karin, Hogrefe, Katharina, de Ruiter, Jan P. and Rose, Miranda L. (2017). How Much Information Do People With Aphasia Convey via Gesture? Am. J. Speech-Lang. Pathol., 26 (2). S. 483 - 498. ROCKVILLE: AMER SPEECH-LANGUAGE-HEARING ASSOC. ISSN 1558-9110

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Abstract

Purpose: People with aphasia (PWA) face significant challenges in verbally expressing their communicative intentions. Different types of gestures are produced spontaneously by PWA, and a potentially compensatory function of these gestures has been discussed. The current study aimed to investigate how much information PWA communicate through 3 types of gesture and the communicative effectiveness of such gestures. Method: Listeners without language impairment rated the information content of short video clips taken from PWA in conversation. Listeners were asked to rate communication within a speech-only condition and a gesture + speech condition. Results: The results revealed that the participants' interpretations of the communicative intentions expressed in the clips of PWA were significantly more accurate in the gesture + speech condition for all tested gesture types. Conclusion: It was concluded that all 3 gesture types under investigation contributed to the expression of semantic meaning communicated by PWA. Gestures are an important communicative means for PWA and should be regarded as such by their interlocutors. Gestures have been shown to enhance listeners' interpretation of PWA's overall communication.

Item Type: Journal Article
Creators:
CreatorsEmailORCIDORCID Put Code
de Beer, CarolaUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Carragher, MarcellaUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
van Nispen, KarinUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Hogrefe, KatharinaUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
de Ruiter, Jan P.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Rose, Miranda L.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
URN: urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-231519
DOI: 10.1044/2016_AJSLP-15-0027
Journal or Publication Title: Am. J. Speech-Lang. Pathol.
Volume: 26
Number: 2
Page Range: S. 483 - 498
Date: 2017
Publisher: AMER SPEECH-LANGUAGE-HEARING ASSOC
Place of Publication: ROCKVILLE
ISSN: 1558-9110
Language: English
Faculty: Unspecified
Divisions: Unspecified
Subjects: no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:
KeywordsLanguage
COMMUNICATION; SPEECH; PANTOMIME; DISCOURSE; LANGUAGEMultiple languages
Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology; Linguistics; RehabilitationMultiple languages
Refereed: Yes
URI: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/23151

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