Recent years have seen a growth in interest in pragmatic aspects of communication, and the
application of this area to language disorders. This has led to the development of a range of …

A drunk man lost his keys one night, and was observed to be peering at the ground under a
street lamp to find them. When asked why he was looking for them there, when he had lost …

A descriptive taxonomy, the pragmatic protocol, was developed for this study. The protocol
consists of 30 pragmatic parameters of language. The purpose of the study was to test the …

The interactive language of 14 adult aphasic patients was analysed using a syntactic profile
(LARSP) and a pragmatic profile, the Profile of Communicative Appropriateness (PCA) …

The selection of an approach to the assessment of adult aphasia is based, to a large extent,
on the clinician's view of the processes affected by the disorder. While there is general …

A range of pragmatic assessment instruments available for use with adults with aphasia is
reviewed in relation to a specified perspective of pragmatic meanings (Bates 1976). The …

The aim of the paper is to present a new clinical instrument for the assessment of
communicative abilities in patients with neuropsychological and psychiatric disorders, due to …

Background: A number of disorders are associated with pragmatic difficulties. Instruments
that can make subdivisions within the larger construct of pragmatics could be important tools …

There has, of course, long been an interest in the function of language as well as the
structure of language, but it has only been in the last dozen years or so that we have seen …

In the past decade we have witnessed a trend toward a more eclectic approach to the
assessment of aphasia. An emphasis on analyzing the structure and component parts of …