摘要：“ Stroke” is a highly emotional topic for people with chronic aphasia (PWA) who often tell their personal “ strokestory,” to clarify why they have a language disorder. This study asks whether high emotive content helps elicit wellformed spoken discourse from PWA, regardless of varying discourse demands. To this end, we compared PWA’s oralproductions of “ stroke stories” to their spoken “ stroke expository opinions” about how the healthcare system treatspeople with stroke. Given the high discourse demands of expository texts Ulataowska & Chapman 1994), wepredicted that, despite the shared emotive content of “ stroke” across text types, participants would have more troubleproducing expository discourse, affecting micro AND macro discourse elements.
