Purpose The aim of this study was to determine if people with aphasia demonstrate
differences in microlinguistic skills and communicative success in unstructured …

Background: There is a need for discourse research with African Americans who have
aphasia, highlighted by ethnic group differences in stroke prevalence, and potential ethnic …

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

Background Language assessment includes mainly structured tasks; however, everyday
communication requires additional abilities. An important clinical question is whether the …

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 …

Background: Although persons with aphasia typically have difficulty with the production of
language at the level of discourse, there is a paucity of reliable measurement systems to …

Purpose Global coherence is an essential macrolinguistic discourse skill that speakers use
to formulate discourse to convey meaning with maintenance to a topic. When global …

Background: The ultimate goal in any programme of aphasia rehabilitation is that
behaviours targeted in therapy will generalise to everyday use for people with aphasia …

Individuals produce discourse for various purposes as part of their daily functioning.
Therefore, the ability to form a discourse should be one of the main goals of functional …

Purpose Spoken discourse analysis is commonly employed in the assessment and
treatment of people living with aphasia, yet there is no standardization in assessment …