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undergraduate thesis: A comparison of co-verbal gestures employment in oral discourse among normal speakers and speakers with aphasia
Title | A comparison of co-verbal gestures employment in oral discourse among normal speakers and speakers with aphasia |
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Issue Date | 2013 |
Publisher | The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) |
Citation | Wat, K. [屈家駿]. (2013). A comparison of co-verbal gestures employment in oral discourse among normal speakers and speakers with aphasia. (Thesis). University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR. |
Abstract | The study has systematically investigated how gestures are used in discourse differently between speakers with and without aphasia. Among speakers with aphasia, how gestures differed in several factors, including (1) hemiplegia, (2) aphasia severity, (3) linguistic performances and (4) semantic processing impairment on gesture use were also examined. Gesture analysis using the recently proposed coding system of gestures was conducted in 48 speakers with aphasia and 12 normal speakers to update the normative data of 119 normal speakers in the previous study. The results show that speakers with aphasia produced significantly more gestures than normal speakers. Among speakers with aphasia, the presence of hemiplegia didn't affect the frequency of gesture use. However, those with more severe aphasia, more complete sentences and simple sentences in discourse, verbal semantics processing impairment were found to use gestures more frequently in all discourse tasks. The relationship between gesture and speech in speakers with aphasia, whether gestures were used as compensation in communication and/or assisting lexical retrieval with the presence of language deficits due to aphasia, is discussed. |
Degree | Bachelor of Science in Speech and Hearing Sciences |
Subject | Gesture Aphasic persons |
Dept/Program | Speech and Hearing Sciences |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/238530 |
HKU Library Item ID | b5806081 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Wat, Ka-chun | - |
dc.contributor.author | 屈家駿 | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-02-15T13:04:37Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2017-02-15T13:04:37Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Wat, K. [屈家駿]. (2013). A comparison of co-verbal gestures employment in oral discourse among normal speakers and speakers with aphasia. (Thesis). University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR. | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/238530 | - |
dc.description.abstract | The study has systematically investigated how gestures are used in discourse differently between speakers with and without aphasia. Among speakers with aphasia, how gestures differed in several factors, including (1) hemiplegia, (2) aphasia severity, (3) linguistic performances and (4) semantic processing impairment on gesture use were also examined. Gesture analysis using the recently proposed coding system of gestures was conducted in 48 speakers with aphasia and 12 normal speakers to update the normative data of 119 normal speakers in the previous study. The results show that speakers with aphasia produced significantly more gestures than normal speakers. Among speakers with aphasia, the presence of hemiplegia didn't affect the frequency of gesture use. However, those with more severe aphasia, more complete sentences and simple sentences in discourse, verbal semantics processing impairment were found to use gestures more frequently in all discourse tasks. The relationship between gesture and speech in speakers with aphasia, whether gestures were used as compensation in communication and/or assisting lexical retrieval with the presence of language deficits due to aphasia, is discussed. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) | - |
dc.rights | The author retains all proprietary rights, (such as patent rights) and the right to use in future works. | - |
dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. | - |
dc.subject.lcsh | Gesture | - |
dc.subject.lcsh | Aphasic persons | - |
dc.title | A comparison of co-verbal gestures employment in oral discourse among normal speakers and speakers with aphasia | - |
dc.type | UG_Thesis | - |
dc.identifier.hkul | b5806081 | - |
dc.description.thesisname | Bachelor of Science in Speech and Hearing Sciences | - |
dc.description.thesislevel | Bachelor | - |
dc.description.thesisdiscipline | Speech and Hearing Sciences | - |
dc.description.nature | published_or_final_version | - |
dc.identifier.mmsid | 991020910449703414 | - |