Pragmatics in Neurogenic Communication Disorders

• Introduction. The other side of language: pragmatic competence (M. Paradis). Impairment of Discourse. Pragmatic breakdown in patients with left and right brain damage: clinical implications (R.L. Bloom, L.K. Obler). Conversational abilities in patients with right hemisphere damage (Y. Chantraine et al.). Conversing in dementia: a conversation analytic approach (L. Perkins et al.). Discourse in fluent aphasia and Alzheimer's disease: linguistic and cognitive considerations (S. Bond Chapman et al.). Coherence and informativeness of discourse in two dementia types (M. Laine et al.). Other Pragmatic Deficits. Affective prosodic disturbance subsequent to right hemisphere stroke: a clinical application (R.T. Wertz et al.). The role of emotion in the linguistic and pragmatic aspects of aphasic performance (M. Perlman Lorch et al.). Literal vs. figurative meaning in patients with closed-head injury (K.L. Chobor, A. Schweiger). Shifting the burden to the interlocutor: compensation for pragmatic deficits in signers with Parkinson's disease (J. Kegl, H. Poizner). Pragmatics in frontal lobe dementia and primary progressive aphasia (J.B. Orange et al.). Compensatory Strategies. Pragmatics in the absence of verbal language: descriptions of a severe aphasic and a linguistically deprived adult (N.F. Dronkers et al.). The use of gestures as a compensatory strategy in adults with acquired aphasia compared to children with specific language impairment (B. Fex, A.-C. Mansson). Relationship between language impairment and pragmatic behavior in aphasic adults (J.A. Avent et al.). A cross language analysis of conversation in a trilingual speaker with aphasia (L. Springer et al.). Author index. Subject index.

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