| For more than a decade, researchers have been applying CA to interactions involving people with aphasia (i.e. an acquired language disorder). These studies have provided unique insights into turn construction (e.g. Wilkinson et al. 2007), conversation repair (e.g. Laakso & Klippi, 1999), interactive co-construction (e.g. Goodwin, 1995), and challenged traditional conceptions of aphasiological symptoms (e.g. Beeke et al. 2007). The present poster will analyse one practice used by a woman with aphasia to generate new topic sequences in everyday interactions: the use of 'and' (including its phonetic variants) in turn-initial position. The particular interactional advantages that this turn construction format offers a person with aphasia will also be discussed, as well as some preliminary formulations of the functions of 'and' in topic sequences. |
