Communicative impairment in traumatic brain injury: a complete pragmatic assessment |
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| Authors: | Angeleri R Bosco F M Zettin M Sacco K Colle L Bara B G |
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| Affiliation: | aCenter for Cognitive Science and Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Via Po 14, 10123 Turin, Italy;bNeuroscience Institute of Turin, Italy;cCentro Puzzle, Turin, Italy;dCCS fMRI, Neuroradiology at Koelliker Hospital & Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Italy |
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| Abstract: | The aim of the present study was to examine the communicative abilities of traumatic brain injury patients (TBI). We wish to provide a complete assessment of their communicative ability/disability using a new experimental protocol, the Assessment Battery of Communication, (ABaCo) comprising five scales—linguistic, extralinguistic, paralinguistic, context and conversational—which investigate all the main pragmatic elements involved in a communicative exchange. The ABaCo was administered to 21 TBI subjects and to a control group. The results showed that performance by TBI patients was worse than that of controls on all scales; moreover they showed a trend of increasing difficulty in understanding and producing different pragmatic phenomena, i.e., standard communication acts, deceits and ironies, whether such phenomena are expressed through the linguistic or extralinguistic modality. |
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| Keywords: | Communication Cognitive Pragmatics Irony Deceit Verbal Non-verbal Paralinguistic Inferential process |
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