Linguistic characteristics of AAC discourse in the workplace  

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Friginal, Eric ; Pearson, Pamela ; Ferrante, Di Laura ; Pickering, Lucy ; Bruce, Carrie

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Discourse Studies (Full Text) vol. 15 no. 3 (Jun. 2013), page 279 –298.
Topik: Augmentative and alternative communication devices; communication impairments; corpus linguistics; discourse analysis; multidimensional analysis; workplace discourse
Fulltext: Discourse Studies-2013-Friginal-279-98.pdf (966.97KB)

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This study examines linguistic co-occurrence patterns in the discourse of individuals with communication impairments who use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) devices in the workplace by comparing them to those of non-AAC users in similar job settings. A typical workweek (˜ 40 hours) per focal participant (four AAC; four non-AAC) was recorded and transcribed to create a specialized corpus of workplace discourse of approximately 464,000 words at the time of this analysis. A multidimensional analysis of co-occurrence patterns along functional linguistic dimensions, following Biber (1988, 1995) [Variation across Speech and Writing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; Dimensions of Register Variation: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press], reveals differences in the macro discourse characteristics of AAC vis-a-vis non-AAC texts. Results indicate that AAC texts make use of more informational, non-narrative, and explicit textual features of discourse than their non-AAC

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