A Competent Speaker Who Can't Speak: The Social Life of Aphasia
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This article examines how a man able to speak only three words because of a severe stroke is nonetheless able to act as a competent speaker, indeed position himself as the teller of a complex story, by linking his limited talk and embodied action to the talk and action of others. This suggests a view of what it means to be a speaker that does not take as its point of departure the mental life and symbolic competence of the individual, but instead focuses on the practices required to participate in the public processes of sign exchange that constitute talk as a primordial site for human social life.1
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Many accessibility tasks require deeply personal embodied knowledge that disabled people possess, such as sign language translation and disabled people's non-normative communication practices.
“Similarly, as explained in Section 8.1, many accessibility tasks require deeply personal embodied knowledge that disabled people possess, such as sign language translation [12, 95, 97], and disabled people's non-normative communication practices [3, 34, 41].”
From Disability-First AI Dataset Annotation: Co-designing Stuttered Speech Annotation Guidelines with People Who Stutter (2026) · cites this paper as [34]
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- Authors
- GOODWIN, C.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- Corresponding author
- GOODWIN, CHARLES
- Venue
- Journal of Linguistic Anthropology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2004-12
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 151-170
- ISSN
- 1055-1360 (ISSN-L)
- 1548-1395
- OpenAlex
- W2144061622
- Cited by
- 342
- References
- 57
- Citations by year
- 2026: 10 · 2025: 28 · 2024: 25 · 2023: 16 · 2022: 31 · 2021: 26 · 2020: 80 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 38 · 2017: 8 · 2016: 15 · 2015: 11 · 2014: 10 · 2013: 4 · 2012: 7
- FWCI
- 12.96
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Occupational Therapy › Assistive Technology in Communication and Mobility
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Disability Rights and Representation
- Keywords
- aphasia, stroke, speech disorders, speaker competence, embodied action, storytelling, pragmatics
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