Abstract
The talk is dedicated to my research, where I work with six patients with diagnosed aphasia and twelve persons with no evident speech deficiency. From a methodological point of view, I point out a necessity to include description of nonverbal elements into language description and, at the same time, to describe damaged data on aphasic patients as well.
From the viewpoint of data processing methods, I explore speech parameters on the one hand: among others quantity of words, and parameters of gestures on the other hand: quantity of gestures, diversity of gestures etc. I dedicate my attention to two fundamental hypotheses: 1) Patients with aphasia produce more gestures than so called verification persons during interpretation of texts; 2) The more speech restricted an aphasic patient is, the more gestures he/she produces during the interpretation of a text.