Politeness strategies in response to prompted directives in the preliminary English version of the ABaCO Battery

Authors

  • Boyd H. Davis University of North Carolina-Charlotte
  • Jacqueline Guendouzi Southeastern Louisiana University
  • Meghan Savage Southeastern Louisiana University
  • William L. Blackburn Southeastern Louisiana University
  • Mandy Williams University of South Dakota

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/jircd.v7i1.26755

Keywords:

TBI, regional differences, politeness strategies, communication battery

Abstract

In this brief report, we analyze responses by unimpaired adults to prompted production of specific directives and requests specified by the Assessment Battery for Communication (ABaCO), finding they identify lay expectations for conversational politeness strategies. This preliminary study allows us to contribute to establishing a fine-grained set of expectations for correct answers by future subjects, as clinicians working with cognitive language impairment may not always have training in or experience with identifying pragmatic subtleties in interactions with persons having impairments such as cerebral lesions.

Author Biographies

  • Boyd H. Davis, University of North Carolina-Charlotte

    Professor of Applied Linguistics; Professor of Gerontology; Cone Professor of Teaching

  • Jacqueline Guendouzi, Southeastern Louisiana University

    Dr. Jacqueline Guendouzi is a linguist and the Knights of Babylon Professor and Director of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Southeastern Louisiana University. Her areas of interest include discourse analysis, pragmatics and psycholinguistics in the context of communication disorders. In particular she is interested in how language processing is affected in the presence of dementia. She co-authored the text Discourse Approaches to Dementia (Lawrence Erlbaum, 2006) with Nicole Mueller, and recently co-edited the Handbook in Psycholinguists and Cognitive Processing: Perspectives in Communication Disorders (Psychology Press, 2011) and co-edited Pragmatics in Dementia Discourse with Boyd Davis (Cambridge Scholars, 2013).

  • Meghan Savage, Southeastern Louisiana University

    Dr. Meghan Savage is a Speech-Language Pathologist and assistant professor in Communication Sciences and Disorders at Southeastern Louisiana University. Her areas of interest include measuring conversational discourse and investigating evidence-based interventions to improve conversational outcomes in neurogenic populations.

  • William L. Blackburn, Southeastern Louisiana University

    William L. Blackburn is a graduate student in Communication Sciences and Disorders at Southeastern Louisiana University. He is currently conducting thesis research regarding the implications of writing therapy on lexical retrieval in persons with aphasia.

  • Mandy Williams, University of South Dakota

    Dr. Mandy Williams, Associate Professor in Communication Sciences and Disorders at University of South Dakota, where she provides clinical supervision in the areas of Fluency Disorders, Acquired Disorders of Language and Cognition, Voice Disorders and Craniofacial anomalies. Her research interests include fluency disorders, interprofessional training, temperament, and psychosocial factors influencing treatment outcomes.

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Published

2016-01-08

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How to Cite

Davis, B., Guendouzi, J., Savage, M., Blackburn, W., & Williams, M. (2016). Politeness strategies in response to prompted directives in the preliminary English version of the ABaCO Battery. Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders, 6(2), 115-129. https://doi.org/10.1558/jircd.v7i1.26755