Language and iconic gesture use in procedural discourse by speakers with aphasia

摘要: Background: Conveying instructions is an everyday use of language, and gestures are likely to be a key feature this. Although co-speech iconic tightly integrated with people aphasia (PWA) produce procedural discourses impaired at linguistic level, no previous studies have investigated how PWA in these contexts. Aims: This study communicated meaning using gesture language discourses, compared neurologically healthy (NHP). We aimed identify the relative relationship speech, context both overall individual events. Methods & Procedures: Twenty-nine 29 NHP produced two discourses. The structure semantic content whole were analysed through predicate argument spatial motor terms, for frequency form. Gesture events, determine information presented each modality. Outcomes Results: used similar frequencies forms gestures, although syntactically simpler fewer words. meant, overall, relatively more was present gesture. finding also reflected where conveying rich alongside semantically impoverished often than NHP. Conclusions: containing omitted from concurrent may help listeners when impaired. indicates should included clinical assessments meaning-making.