A preliminary investigation of the impact of stuttering on language use

Title: A preliminary investigation of the impact of stuttering on language use
Creator: Spencer, E.; Packman, A.; Onslow, M.; Ferguson, Alison
Relation: Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics Vol. 19, no. 3, p. 191-201
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2005
Description: This paper reflects on the application of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) to the field of stuttering. It is argued that the SFL theory may offer insight into the impact that stuttering has on language use. Two case studies are presented to illustrate the application of SFL theory. The two SFL analyses found to be of most use in this pilot study were the analysis of how language is modulated in response to interpersonal aspects of communication (modality) and the analysis of how information is foregrounded (theme). The implications of applying the SFL model to consideration of the utilisation of language resources in people who stutter are discussed.
Subject: stuttering; Systemic Functional Linguistics; modality; interpersonal; theme; syntactic complexity; sentence length; speech; children; adolescents; disorders; fluency
Identifier: uon:538
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/24658
Identifier: ISSN:1464-5076
Language: eng
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