Our study investigates the ability of right brain damaged patients to deal with different pragmatic phenomena. In particular, we focus on comprehension of direct and indirect communicative acts, deceits, ironies and communicative failures, all realized through extralinguistic means. The results of our study, which are consistent with the literature on linguistic pragmatics in right patients, fully confirm our predictions concerning trends in difficulty of comprehension. Cognitive Pragmatics theory, which is our framework of reference, is strengthened by the results of the present study.
Extralinguistic pragmatic ability in right hemisphere brain damaged patients / I. Cutica, B.G. Bara, M. Bucciarelli - In: Proceedings of EuroCogSci '03 : the European Cognitive Science Conference 2003, Osnabrück, Germany, September 10 - 13, 2003 / [a cura di] F. Schmalhofer, R. Young, G. Katz. - Mahwah, N. J. : L. Erlbaum, 2003. - ISBN 0-8058-5005-8. - pp. 610-616 (( convegno European Cognitive Science Conference (ECSC) tenutosi a Osnabrück nel 2003.
Extralinguistic pragmatic ability in right hemisphere brain damaged patients
I. CuticaPrimo
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2003
Abstract
Our study investigates the ability of right brain damaged patients to deal with different pragmatic phenomena. In particular, we focus on comprehension of direct and indirect communicative acts, deceits, ironies and communicative failures, all realized through extralinguistic means. The results of our study, which are consistent with the literature on linguistic pragmatics in right patients, fully confirm our predictions concerning trends in difficulty of comprehension. Cognitive Pragmatics theory, which is our framework of reference, is strengthened by the results of the present study.
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