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Publication Date: 1985-May
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Conversational Competency Profiles of Adult Males Who Exhibit Fluency Disorders.
Thorpe, Carol D.
The study explored the verbal and nonverbal conversational competency of five adult males who exhibited fluency disorders. Five subject/interactant videotaped conversational interactions were analyzed utilizing an INter-REActive Learning (INREAL) Model analysis format. Descriptive individual and composite profiles resulting from trained raters' judgments of discrete verbal and nonverbal communicative behaviors are presented in tandem with the profile of one interactant who was constant across all five interactions. Results indicated that three or more subjects exhibited genuinely communicative behaviors in the following areas: (1) interpersonal communication, (2) communication domain (cognitive), (3) cognition, (4) linguistics (phonology, syntax, semantics), (5) communicative competence (basic and advanced), (6) nonverbal communication, and (7) conversation initiating and responding. All of the subjects exhibited some behaviors judged to be non-communicative in the areas of communication strategies, linguistics (vocal suprasegmentals), social components of communication, fluency, reaction time latency, and conversation talk time. (Author/DB)
Publication Type: Dissertations/Theses - Masters Theses; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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