Illocution Gesture in Broca Aphasia Patients

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210427.045How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Broca’s aphasia, Gesture, Illocution, Pragmatics

Abstract

Broca aphasia is a language disorder that occurs due to stroke in the left hemisphere of the brain and has an impact on impaired functional communication skills. People affected by Broca’s aphasia will have difficulty in producing and expressing words in the form of verbal language so that the word production is limited. This article is a pragmatic study that aims to investigate the meaning of the illocutionary gesture of a Broca aphasia sufferer who has difficulty speaking in communicating. The theory used is the illocutionary speech act theory to show the illocutionary pressure produced by people with aphasia in conveying the meaning of their speech. The Illocutionary Stress Hint Tool is displayed by promising, warning, asking, saying, etc. as well as other mental states. This research is a case study of a single subject with Broca’s aphasia, a 58-year-old man. The object of research is gestures and utterances conveyed by patients in communicating. Qualitative methods are used in processing data from observations that are recorded and described in the form of field notes. The results showed that the patient experienced verbal and nonverbal language difficulties, that is, the informant produced non-grammatical verbal utterances and unclear gestures. The language strategy that informants carry out is by gesturing the illocution of notifications, requests, complaints, wishes.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Lilis Hartini
AU  - Dadang Sudana
AU  - Wawan Gunawan
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/04/28
TI  - Illocution Gesture in Broca Aphasia Patients
BT  - Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 296
EP  - 301
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210427.045
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210427.045
ID  - Hartini2021
ER  -