- Title
- A critical discourse perspective on understandings of the nature of aphasia
- Creator
- Ferguson, Alison
- Relation
- Handbook of Qualitative Research in Communication Disorders p. 173-185
- Relation
- Language and Speech Disorders Series
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203798874.ch10
- Publisher
- Psychology Press
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2014
- Description
- This chapter applies a critical discourse perspective to the different ways in which the communication disorder known as aphasia is currently understood. Through the use of a single case study of a woman who has acquired moderate-severe aphasia following stroke, the chapter compares a range of discourse samples that illuminate how her difficulties are identified and described. Excerpts from a written report of results of formal testing, a case history interview, a casual conversation with a clinician, and an interview for public awareness about aphasia are analyzed. These texts are also compared with an analysis of the representation of aphasia in discourse samples from websites of speech-language pathology professional associations and support groups for aphasia. Implications arising from this critical discourse perspective for the practice of speech-language pathology are discussed.
- Subject
- communicative disorders; speech disorders; aphasia
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1064773
- Identifier
- uon:17647
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781848726420
- Language
- eng
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