Exploring communicative gestures in Czech persons with diagnosed aphasia
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/1731-7533.19.1.02" target="_blank" >10.18778/1731-7533.19.1.02</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Exploring communicative gestures in Czech persons with diagnosed aphasia
Original language description
In my investigation, I work with 6 persons with diagnosed aphasia. I introduce some possible perspectives on the exploration of the extent of speech damage in persons with aphasia and the various ways they substitute language deficiency with the aid of gestures. From the viewpoint of data processing methods, I explore, on the one hand, the parameters of spoken language such as the quantity of words, and, on the other hand, the parameters of gestures such as the quantity of gestures, diversity of gestures, etc. With aphasic persons speaking Czech, I verify the following assumption established by Jakob et al. (2011): the more speech-limited an aphasic person is, the more gestures he/she produces during the interpretation of a story. I compare my results with Jakob's et al. results and with results of Wiesmayer et al., who claim the opposite. It was found that number of words produced in aphasic persons vary and partially depend on specific type of aphasia, particularly on both ends of a scale - people with large speech distortion use highest quantity of gestures, people with low speech distortion use gestures to a lesser extent. Within the classification of semantic gestures, I focus particularly on iconic and deictic gestures. I presume alongside that symbolic gestures (i.e. emblems) do not occur in aphasic persons' speech, because aphasic persons prefer gestures that display the plot in the most concrete way. My data correlate with another studies dealing with this topic - aphasic persons do use gestures intentionally to substitute their verbal deficiency. At the same time, they use mostly very concrete (iconic) gestures, which enable them to transmit large amount of information.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60203 - Linguistics
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Research in Language
ISSN
1731-7533
e-ISSN
2083-4616
Volume of the periodical
19
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
PL - POLAND
Number of pages
18
Pages from-to
15-32
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85134503737