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Volume 17:11 November 2017
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Narrative Discourse of Kannada-English Bilingual Individuals with
Traumatic Brain Injury: A Comparative Study

Hema. N., Shyamala. K. C. & K. P. Priya

Abstract

Individuals while speaking in two different languages may essentially have different thought patterns in the languages they use while speaking, this is the linguistic relativity hypothesis. However there is dearth of studies in checking validity of linguistic hypothesis in disordered population (with traumatic brain injury). Thus present study is an attempt in particular to investigate how and when narrating, a bilingual individual with TBI expresses verbal notions through the appropriate use of voices, aspect and tense forms which are accessible in each of their two languages and study tries to inspect the narration ability of 20 bilingual individual with TBI. Participants were required to narrate in English and Kannada languages which were video recorded. Target task oral narratives, where usage of past tense was expected when representing string of events which are taking place in a particular sequence. Narrative discourses were quantified separately as fours variables under T-unit analysis. The variables were number of words per clauses and number of clauses, number of words per T unit and number of T units. The statistical results showed significant differences in all parameters and lower mean was obtained in English narrative discourse when compared to Kannada narrative discourse.

Keywords: T-unit, Traumatic brain injury, Linguistic relativity

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and Cognitive Dysfunctions

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a consequence of an external physical trauma to the brain causing permanent or transient neurological dysfunction, with road traffic accidents (RTA) being the major cause and primarily among the young group of males in the age range of 15-19 years old. TBI can create wide spread and significant disabilities in terms of emotional, social and physical outcomes. However, in most survivors of TBI, the primary disabling factors involve a wide range of communicative, cognitive, emotional, and psychosocial dysfunctions (Johnston, Shawaryn, Malec, Kreutzer & Hammond, 2006). For the rest of their lifetime these survivors often require health, welfare and social services. Hence there is an imperative need for enduring research into outcomes after TBI which is crucial essential.

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Hema N. Ph.D. (Speech Language Pathology)
Lecturer in Speech Language Sciences
All India Institute of Speech and Hearing,
Mysuru 570006
Karnataka
India
hema_chari2@yahool.com

Shyamala K. C., Ph.D. (Speech and Hearing) Professor in Speech Language Pathology
All India Institute of Speech and Hearing
Mysuru 570006
Karnataka
India
shyamalakc@yahoo.com

K. P. Priya, Masters in Audiology
All India Institute of Speech and Hearing
Mysuru 570006
Karnataka
India
kppriya13@gmail.com

All India Speech and Hearing Institute
Naimisham Campus, Road No.3
T K Layout, Manasagangothri
Mysuru, Karnataka 57000
India
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