Interactive Evaluation of Cognitive functioning
| Panel: | P46 - Evaluating “cognitive competences” |
| Author: | Mĺnsson, Ann-Christin |
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| In this paper I present a study of talk-in interaction using data from a clinical setting involving interlocutors participating in a so-called naming task. The participants are a man with fluent aphasia who has word finding difficulties and his clinician. The study deals with the ways in which the participants demonstrate 1) that difficulties in performing the task of naming are “cognitively” based or 2) difficulties in speech production or 3) a combination of both. This is determined by the type of prompting, semantic or phonemic, self and other prompting, candidate answer and accounts used in the activity. The performance is followed by evaluative accounting where both participants talk about his difficulties, in terms of ‘recognising’, ‘remembering’ and ‘knowing’ words and other ‘cognitive processes’. The data was collected one year after the stroke and consists of a video recording of 35 min. Using CA as a methodology, the paper presents a video based multi-modal analysis of the interaction between the clinician and the participant which focuses on different types of body communication such as body posture movements, head movements, gaze direction, facial expressions and arm and hand movements. (Goodwin, (1995), McNeill (1992) and Mĺnsson (2003), as resources for building the actions that constitutes the sequences of the naming activity (Schegloff, Jefferson, Sacks, 1977). |
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