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| Author(s): |
Caio Cesar Costa Ribeiro Mira
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem |
| Defense date: | 2012-02-27 |
| Examining board members: |
Edwiges Maria Morato;
Anna Christina Bentes;
Heloísa de Oliveira Macedo;
Vanda Maria da Silva Elias;
Zilda Gaspar Oliveira de Aquino
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| Advisor: | Edwiges Maria Morato |
| Abstract | |
The interactive practices of the Aphasic Social Centre (henceforth, CCA) are a very interesting locus to analyze the relationship between language, cognition and social life. The CCA, located at the Language Studies Institute at UNICAMP, is a place for interaction between aphasics and non-aphasics that tries to evoke methodologically, in weekly meetings, the routine of life in society. Those practices involve various processes of meaning (verbal and non-verbal language) that mobilizes pragmatic, textual, and discursive resources (Morato et al, 2002). Given the social configuration of the CCA and the theoretical-methodological conversation analysis as well as the text-interactive approach of the field of Brazilian studies on Textual Linguistics, this research aims to analyze three interactional episodes involving non-aphasic and aphasic subjects through two categories that sustain the conversation: the topic of discourse and conversational turn. This work is based in the following hypothesis: could we say that aphasic subjects are nonetheless competent according to the pragmatic point of view? Could textual and interactive analysis show that aphasic subjects possess an ability to recognize forms of integration, overlap and shifts taken from conversational to participate in the development of a topic in a conversational situation? Could this analysis demonstrate that aphasics may be able to recognize the specificities of dynamic shifts and shape the development of a conversational topic demanded by the situation that occurred in the CCA? We believe that the interpretative analysis of the language practices of aphasic subjects contributes to the understanding of inclusion and the participation of them in daily practices, something that goes largely by language or by their contexts of use. Also, according to those practices, we can better understand how the aphasics can participate in various social activities and thus contribute to the growth of inclusive actions to reduce the social isolation that often occurs due to the misunderstanding of the specific deficits of language in concrete use of language situations. The results of our analysis show that aphasics do not necessarily lose the pragmatic or textual interaction competence. Both structural and functional use of language allows communicative creative strategies imposed by the difficulties of aphasic subjects. Thus, in intersubjective and cooperative multimodal ways aphasics become able to interact in conversational situations, manipulating appropriately in relation to their communicative purposes, engaging in the dynamics of conversational turns and contributing to the development of the topic. Our findings demonstrate that aphasics recognize the configuration of interactive text-chat, as manifested by moving the topic of forms of participation frameworks for interactive and dynamic shifts. Therefore, Aphasia, and also the analysis of this neurolinguistics phenomenon, is not reduced to what happens at the level of the linguistic system stricto sensu (AU) | |