TY - JOUR
T1 - Verbal pragmatics following unilateral stroke
T2 - Emotional content and valence
AU - Borod, Joan C.
AU - Pick, Lawrence H.
AU - Andelman, Fani
AU - Obler, Loraine K.
AU - Welkowitz, Joan
AU - Rorie, Kashemi D.
AU - Bloom, Ronald L.
AU - Campbell, Alfonso L.
AU - Tweedy, James R.
AU - Sliwinski, Martin
PY - 2000/1
Y1 - 2000/1
N2 - Verbal pragmatic aspects of discourse production were examined in 16 fight brain-damaged (RBD), 16 left brain-damaged (LBD), and 16 normal control fight-handed adults. The facilitation effect of emotional content, valence hypothesis, and relationship between pragmatics and emotion were evaluated. Participants produced monologues while recollecting emotional and nonemotional experiences. Transcribed monologues were rated for appropriateness on 6 pragmatic features: conciseness, lexical selection, quantity, relevancy, specificity, and topic maintenance. Overall, brain- damaged groups were rated as significantly less appropriate than normals. Consistent with the facilitation effect, emotional content enhanced pragmatic performance of LBD aphasic participants yet suppressed performance of RBD participants. Contrary to the valence hypothesis, RBD participants were more impaired for positive emotions and LBD participants for negative emotions. Pragmatic appropriateness was not strongly correlated with a measure of emotional intensity.
AB - Verbal pragmatic aspects of discourse production were examined in 16 fight brain-damaged (RBD), 16 left brain-damaged (LBD), and 16 normal control fight-handed adults. The facilitation effect of emotional content, valence hypothesis, and relationship between pragmatics and emotion were evaluated. Participants produced monologues while recollecting emotional and nonemotional experiences. Transcribed monologues were rated for appropriateness on 6 pragmatic features: conciseness, lexical selection, quantity, relevancy, specificity, and topic maintenance. Overall, brain- damaged groups were rated as significantly less appropriate than normals. Consistent with the facilitation effect, emotional content enhanced pragmatic performance of LBD aphasic participants yet suppressed performance of RBD participants. Contrary to the valence hypothesis, RBD participants were more impaired for positive emotions and LBD participants for negative emotions. Pragmatic appropriateness was not strongly correlated with a measure of emotional intensity.
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U2 - 10.1037/0894-4105.14.1.112
DO - 10.1037/0894-4105.14.1.112
M3 - Article
C2 - 10674803
AN - SCOPUS:0033959513
SN - 0894-4105
VL - 14
SP - 112
EP - 124
JO - Neuropsychology
JF - Neuropsychology
IS - 1
ER -