The Evaluation of pragmatic Skills of Brain Damaged Adult Persian–Speaking Patients

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M. arianpour 1
M. A. Mozaheb 2
1 Ph.D in linguistics. Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Encyclopedia Compiling Research Center. Tehran, Iran.
2 Assistant Professor in TEFL, Imam Sadiq University, Tehran, Iran.
Abstract
The present study aimed to evaluate pragmatic skill of adult right and left hemispheres damaged Persian speaking patients using the Persian version of the Montreal Protocol for the Evaluation of Communication (M.E.C.). The statistical populations of the study were 10 adults, right and left hemispheres damaged Persian speaking patients due to cerebrovascular accident (CVA). Two sets of tests were used in the present study. The first ones were screening tests included Lateral Preference Inventory (Corn test), Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) and Persian Diagnostic Aphasia Battery (EQ1). The Performance of patients in protocol subtests were evaluated and compared with each other individually, intragroup and intergroup. Data were analyzed using inferential statistical methods and no meaningful relations were found between them. These findings indicated that damage to the right and left hemispheres of the brain leads to pragmatic impairments. However, damages to the right hemisphere increases the severity of pragmatic impairments more than damages to the left hemisphere.

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