Effect of referential speech steps in discourse construction in patients with severe traumatic brain injury.

International audiencePatients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) often display communicative deficits. In particular, their discourse has been described as globally little informative and poorly organized [1]. In this study, we used a referential communication paradigm with a new storytelling in sequence task [2] designed specifically to explore the referential behavior of participants engaged in a verbal interaction situation. More precisely, the present study aims to investigate the construction of a mutual knowledge through the differentiated use of reference markers (anaphoric pronouns, definite and indefinite markers) according to different referential speech steps