@article{ref1,
title="Communicative impairment in traumatic brain injury: a complete pragmatic assessment",
journal="Brain and language",
year="2008",
author="Angeleri, R. and Bosco, Francesca Marina and Zettin, M. and Sacco, K. and Colle, L. and Bara, B. G.",
volume="107",
number="3",
pages="229-245",
abstract="The aim of the present study was to examine the communicative abilities of traumatic brain injury patients (TBI). We wish to provide a complete assessment of their communicative ability/disability using a new experimental protocol, the Assessment Battery of Communication, (ABaCo) comprising five scales--linguistic, extralinguistic, paralinguistic, context and conversational--which investigate all the main pragmatic elements involved in a communicative exchange. The ABaCo was administered to 21 TBI subjects and to a control group. The results showed that performance by TBI patients was worse than that of controls on all scales; moreover they showed a trend of increasing difficulty in understanding and producing different pragmatic phenomena, i.e., standard communication acts, deceits and ironies, whether such phenomena are expressed through the linguistic or extralinguistic modality.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0093-934X",
doi="10.1016/j.bandl.2008.01.002",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2008.01.002"
}