the assessment of pragmatics in iranian patients with right brain damage.
نویسندگان
چکیده
background: pragmatics is appropriate use of language across a variety of social contexts that provides accurate interpretation of intentions. the occurrence of the right hemisphere lesions can interfere with pragmatic abilities, and particularly with the processing of nonliteral speech acts. methods: since the objective of this study was to assess different aspects of pragmatic competence in the right hemisphere damage (rhd) patients, 20 iranian patients with right hemisphere lesions were examined by adult pragmatic profile (app) and a novel checklist was introduced for persian language speaking individuals. meanwhile, 40 healthy adult individuals, who were age and gender matched with rhd patients, were considered as the control group. after obtaining video records, all subjects were evaluated for 35 pragmatic skills, including 24 verbal, 5 paralinguistic, and 6 nonverbal aspects, by a two-point scale system. results: studying rhd patients and their healthy counterparts revealed that the performance by participants with right hemisphere lesions exhibited a high degree of inappropriate pragmatic abilities compared with controls in all domains. furthermore, rhd patients showed a trend of increasing difficulty in understanding and producing different pragmatic phenomena, including standard communication acts. conclusion: present results indicated that the right hemisphere lesions significantly affected pragmatic abilities in verbal, paralinguistic and nonverbal aspects. such a pattern of performance, which is in line with deficits previously reported for rhd, proved the unquestioned role of the right hemisphere in processing nonliteral language.
منابع مشابه
The assessment of pragmatics in Iranian patients with right brain damage
BACKGROUND Pragmatics is appropriate use of language across a variety of social contexts that provides accurate interpretation of intentions. The occurrence of the right hemisphere lesions can interfere with pragmatic abilities, and particularly with the processing of nonliteral speech acts. METHODS Since the objective of this study was to assess different aspects of pragmatic competence in t...
متن کاملassessment of the park- ang damage index for performance levels of rc moment resisting frames
چکیده هدف اصلی از طراحی لرزه ای تامین ایمنی جانی در هنگام وقوع زلزله و تعمیر پذیر بودن سازه خسارت دیده، پس از وقوع زلزله است. تجربه زلزله های اخیر نشان داده است که ساختمان های طراحی شده با آیین نامه های مبتنی بر نیرو از نظر محدود نمودن خسارت وارده بر سازه دقت لازم را ندارند. این امر سبب پیدایش نسل جدید آیین نامه های مبتنی بر عملکرد شده است. در این آیین نامه ها بر اساس تغییرشکل های غیرارتجاعی ...
15 صفحه اولthe role of application of dynamic assessment approach in improvement of iranian efl writing performance at different language proficiency levels
the present study sought to investigate the role of dynamic assessment (da) in improvement of iranian efl writing performance at different language proficiency levels. to this end, after conducting the quick placement test, 60 iranian efl learners were assigned to two groups with different language proficiency levels. in both groups each participant wrote two compositions, one before and one af...
the place of iranian public diplomacy in central asia
چکیده: نسبت به کارکرد و ماهیت دیپلماسی عمومی در جهان امروز نظریه های متعددی بیان گردیده و جایگاه آن در کنار نظریه های دیگر در محافل آکادمیک و دانشگاهی بررسی و تحلیل گردیده است. نظر به اهمیت دیپلماسی عمومی و جایگاه آن در سیاست خارجی ایران این نوشتار با تمرکز بر دیپلماسی عمومی در منطقه آسیای مرکزی تهیه و تنظیم شده است. این ضرورت از آنجا ناشی می شود که اولاً مفهوم دیپلماسی عمومی در سیاست خارجی ای...
15 صفحه اولthe effect of learning strategies on the speaking ability of iranian students in the context of language institutes
the effect of learning strategies on the speaking ability of iranian students in the context of language institutes abstract language learning strategies are of the most important factors that help language learners to learn a foreign language and how they can deal with the four language skills specifically speaking skill effectively. acknowledging the great impact of learning strategies...
منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
عنوان ژورنال:
iranian journal of neurologyجلد ۱۳، شماره ۲، صفحات ۸۳-۸۷
میزبانی شده توسط پلتفرم ابری doprax.com
copyright © 2015-2023