Acquired pragmatic disorders of right hemisphere damaged patients
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2012/05/0017/000223Keywords:
theory of mind, right hemisphere damage, pragmatic competence, intentionality, inferenceAbstract
In neuropragmatics, attempts have been made to investigate how the brain/mind uses language both in healthy and neurologically impaired individuals (Paradis, 2009). This field, combining the approaches of linguistics and neurology, focuses on the communicative use of language, its neurological/neural basis and representation in the brain, mental strategies, communicative difficulties, intentional communication, inference from discourse, and the role of context (contextual clues) in comprehension. Studies often deal with pragmatic competence (Perkins, 2010). By means of experimental pragmatics, our current research focuses on pragmatic competence and its vital component, the theory of mind (Baron-Cohen, 1985, 1995, 2000; Frith, 2007).
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