title: Disruption of written language in aphasia: a case study.
abstract: This study documents the performance of a Wernicke aphasic on production of written discourse. The discourse data consisted of spontaneously produced texts of three different types: narrative discourse, personal and formal letters, and expository discourse. A detailed description of the language of this aphasic at a sentence and discourse level revealed preservation of discourse structure through proper use of cohesive devices despite severe disruption of linguistic structure at a sentence level.
mesh_terms: D001037:Aphasia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D001041:Aphasia, Wernicke / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D012660:Semantics; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000473:pathology; D014825:Vocabulary; D014956:Writing