In 1861 Broca, a Parisian surgeon, reported a postmortem he had carried out on a man who
had lost his ability to speak 20 years previously and who in the intervening period had only …

This study sought preliminary relationships between discourse deficits and cognitive abilities
in persons with right hemisphere disorder (RHD). Seven participants with RHD were …

The understanding of stories requires sensitivity to structural aspects of narrative, the
emotional content conveyed by the narrative, and the interaction between structural and …

In this volume, which simultaneously honors the career contributions of Jean Berko Gleason
and provides an overview of a broad and increasingly important research area, a panel of …

Right hemisphere brain-damaged (RHD) patients and healthy elderly and younger control
subjects were tested on a battery of tasks designed to probe their script knowledge. More …

This article examines several factors that influence the production of requests for behavior.
Using a role-play methodology, we elicited request productions from well-recovered patients …

The purpose of the present study is to explore the role of an explicit expression of
macrostructure in facilitating performance on a Story Arrangement Task. Subjects were …

To participate meaningfully in conversation, speakers must be sensitive to statements which
advance and those which block the direction of a discourse. The effect of right-hemisphere …

Some more recent lines of research converge on claiming that human cognitive behavior in
general and linguistic discourse in particular cannot reasonably be reduced to one …

Focal brain injury can have detrimental effects on the pragmatics of communication. This
study examined narrative production by unilateral brain damaged people (n= 36) and …