Background: Pragmatics is appropriate use of language across a variety of social contexts
that provides accurate interpretation of intentions. The occurrence of the right hemisphere …

Patients with right hemisphere damage (RHD) often show communicative-pragmatic deficits
involving different expressive modalities, ie linguistic, extralinguistic and paralinguistic. Most …

Pragmatics is defined as appropriate use of language either to comprehend ideas or to
interact in social situations effectively. Pragmatic competence, which is processed in the …

Aim of the present study is to provide a multifocal assessment of pragmatic abilities in
patients with right hemisphere damage (RHD). Pragmatics refers to the ability to use …

Pragmatic communication abilities refer to the capacity to use language in a social context.
Despite evidence to the contrary, the left cerebral hemisphere of the majority of right handers …

Formal and functional approaches to pragmatics are based upon different assumptions
about the nature of the language system. This paper examines these approaches to …

The occurrence of a right-hemisphere lesion can interfere with pragmatic abilities, and
particularly with the processing of non-literal speech acts in which the listener has to identify …

Background While pragmatic deficits are well documented in patients with schizophrenia
(SCZ) and right hemisphere damage (RHD), there is a paucity of research comparing the …

The aim of the present study is to compare the pragmatic ability of right-and left-hemisphere-
damaged patients excluding the possible interference of linguistic deficits. To this aim, we …

Research investigating pragmatic deficits in individuals with right hemisphere damage
focuses on identifying the potential mechanisms responsible for the nature of these …