Background: It has been suggested that individuals with fluent aphasia demonstrate
microlinguistic impairments and relatively preserved macrolinguistic abilities (Glosser & …

Background: Discourse is a naturally occurring, dynamic form of communication. Coherence
is one aspect of discourse and is a reflection of the listener's ability to interpret the overall …

METHOD-Subjects. Ten aphasic adults (nine male, one female), between the ages of 36
and 71, with a mean age of 57 years, served as subjects. Educational status ranged from 9 …

Aphasic discourse has been investigated through two major approaches: a micro-linguistic
approach and a macro one, but the separate analysis of the micro and macro aspects of …

Purpose Global coherence is an essential macrolinguistic discourse skill that speakers use
to formulate discourse to convey meaning with maintenance to a topic. When global …

Discourse coherence is the conceptual organization of discourse and it can be subdivided
into two types: global and local. Of interest for the current study is global coherence; that is …

Background Discourse analysis is an important component of aphasia assessment because
it can provide an insight into functional communication abilities. However, there are many …

Background: The label “fluent aphasia” applies to different aphasic syndromes characterised
by fluent speech with difficulties in lexical retrieval and/or grammatical processing. Aims …

Although impaired discourse production is one of the prominent features of aphasia, only a
handful of investigations have addressed the cognitive, linguistic and neural processes that …

Background Coherence is the quality that distinguishes discourse from a random collection
of sentences. People with aphasia have been reported to produce less-coherent discourse …