Effect of Referential Speech Steps in Discourse Construction in Patients with Severe Traumatic Brain Injury

摘要

Patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) often display communicative deficits. In particular, theirdiscourse has been described as globally little informative and poorly organized (Marini et al., 2011).In this study, we used a referential communication paradigm with a new storytelling in sequence task(Gonzalez et al., 2011) designed specifically to explore the referential behavior of participantsengaged in a verbal interaction situation. More precisely, the present study aims to investigate theconstruction of a mutual knowledge through the differentiated use of reference markers (anaphoricpronouns, definite and indefinite markers) according to different referential speech steps.