Lea Wölk
Broschiertes Buch

Speech and Gesture in Aphasia

Versandkostenfrei!
Versandfertig in 1-2 Wochen
17,95 €
inkl. MwSt.
Weitere Ausgaben:
PAYBACK Punkte
0 °P sammeln!
Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject Speech Science / Linguistics, University of Erfurt, language: English, abstract: The present paper examines this question whether gesture and speech can be treated as going hand-in-hand and, following that, break down together in case of speech impairment following aphasia or if gestures can even have a compensating function when language is no longer usable for an aphasic person. In the first case, one may assume that gesture and speech are "different sides of a single underlying mental process" (cf. McNeill 1992:1); in the second case, gesture ...