Discourse is a highly individualized and complex speech act essential for effective
communication in daily life. Individuals with language disorders demonstrate impaired …

Background Discourse analysis procedures are time consuming and impractical in a clinical
setting. Critical to clinicians are simple and informative discourse measures that require …

Purpose Discourse analysis is commonly used to assess language ability and to evaluate
language change following intervention in aphasia. The purpose of this study was to identify …

Background: Discourse coherence is derived, in part, from the relationship between and
among words and sentences. In studies of aphasia, the relationship between discourse …

Background Discourse in adults with aphasia is increasingly the focus of assessment and
therapy research. A broad range of measures is available to describe discourse, but very …

Evidence suggests that discourse-level assessment in aphasia should be implemented
within clinical settings. However, existing discourse measures that are time and labor …

Background: Discourse functionality is a primary goal of aphasia assessment and
intervention. People who have aphasia often display a paradoxical functionality in their …

Background: Linguistic discourse analysis is an assessment method widely applied within
aphasia research literature to examine impairments as they affect the language of daily …

This review examined previous research applications of linguistic discourse analysis to
assess the language of adults with aphasia. A comprehensive literature search of seven …

Background: Proposition analysis of the discourse of persons with aphasia (PWAs) has a
long history, yielding important advancements in our understanding of communication …