Aphasia’s Implications for Linguistics Research

Roberto Graci has a PhD in Cognitive Sciences from the University of Messina. His work focuses on the communicative competence of people with aphasia and its implication on the semantics/pragmatics debate. He has published several papers emphasising the productive comparison between theoretical pragmatics and speech-language pathology. Roberto Graci has also actively participated in important events on linguistics and philosophy of language, including Pragmasophia 3 and the XIV Congress of SIFA (Italian Society of Analytical Philosophy).

• Introduction.- Chapter 1. The Intersection of Philosophy and Linguistics in Understanding Language Pathologies.- Chapter 2. Understanding the Significance of Situational Context and Common Ground in Communication.- Chapter 3. The Semantics/Pragmatics Interface.- Chapter 4. The Cognitive Substrates of Pragmatics.- Chapter 5. Aphasia, Sub-Sentential Speeches and Pragmatic Enrichment.- Concluding Remarks and Future Directions for the Semantics/Pragmatics Debate.