The aphasic utterance: A significal perspective
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Rosana Novaes Pinto
Rosana Novaes Pinto (b. 1961) is a professor at the State University of Campinas 〈ronovaes@terra.com.br 〉. Her research interests include language in normality and pathological states with a special focus on aphasia; and methodological and ethical issues regarding evaluation and follow up of aphasic subjects. Her publications include “O conceito de fluência nos estudos das afasias” [The concept of fluency in the studies of aphasia] (2012); “Funcionamento semântico-lexical: discussão crítica com base em dados de situações dialógicas com sujeitos afásicos” [Semantic-lexical functioning: A critical discussion based on data obtained in dialogical situations with aphasic subjects] (with Thalita Souza-Cruz, 2012); “A social-cultural approach to aphasia: Contributions from the work developed at a center for aphasic subjects” (2012); and “Cérebro, linguagem e funcionamento cognitivo na perspectiva sócio-histórico-cultural: inferências a partir do estudo das afasias” [Brain, language, and cognitive functioning in the socio-historical-cultural perspective: Inferences from the study of aphasias] (2012).
Abstract
On the opportunity to celebrate Welby's centenary of death, I would like to enhance the contribution of her significs – which fortunately reached us, mainly, through the extraordinary effort of Susan Petrilli – to the research developed in the field of neurolinguistics, especially on aphasia. The vital need for signifying underlies all forms of communication – even when language is severely impacted by neurological episodes, as in aphasia states. Traditional approaches usually focus their analyses on what is missing in the linguistic system (generally taken as a code), not only to evaluate language and classify the aphasic into stable categories, but also – and even worse – to base clinical work on those classifications. In the opposite direction, within “discursive neurolinguistics” (as we have been calling the field we develop), we are interested in all kinds of resources that still remain (verbal and/or non-verbal signs) and aim to help aphasics to develop alternative/creative ways to continue in the discursive flow of signification. The refined terminology postulated by Welby and, mainly, her approach to the concrete processes of signification/interpretation enlighten and ground our reflections, as I intend to illustrate by bringing to this text analyses of some aphasic utterances in the significal perspective.
About the author
Rosana Novaes Pinto (b. 1961) is a professor at the State University of Campinas 〈ronovaes@terra.com.br〉. Her research interests include language in normality and pathological states with a special focus on aphasia; and methodological and ethical issues regarding evaluation and follow up of aphasic subjects. Her publications include “O conceito de fluência nos estudos das afasias” [The concept of fluency in the studies of aphasia] (2012); “Funcionamento semântico-lexical: discussão crítica com base em dados de situações dialógicas com sujeitos afásicos” [Semantic-lexical functioning: A critical discussion based on data obtained in dialogical situations with aphasic subjects] (with Thalita Souza-Cruz, 2012); “A social-cultural approach to aphasia: Contributions from the work developed at a center for aphasic subjects” (2012); and “Cérebro, linguagem e funcionamento cognitivo na perspectiva sócio-histórico-cultural: inferências a partir do estudo das afasias” [Brain, language, and cognitive functioning in the socio-historical-cultural perspective: Inferences from the study of aphasias] (2012).
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Articles in the same Issue
- Masthead
- Introduction
- Lady Welby and Lady Petrilli
- Victoria Lady Welby – A pioneer of semiotic thought rediscovered by Susan Petrilli
- The life of significance: Cultivating ingenuity no less than signs
- Mother sense and the image schema of the gift
- Signification, common knowledge, and womanhood: The significs of Lady Victoria Welby and beyond
- Science: The question of its limits
- Susan Petrilli's archival research on Victoria Welby and its implications for future scholarly inquiry
- The “dialogue” between Victoria Lady Welby and Mikhail Bakhtin – Reading Susan Petrilli's Signifying and Understanding
- Christine Ladd-Franklin's and Victoria Welby's correspondence with Charles Peirce
- Tracing signs of a developing science: On the correspondence between Victoria Lady Welby and Charles S. Peirce
- Signs, senses and cognition: Lady Welby and contemporary semiotics
- Space and time: Continuity in the correspondence between Charles Peirce and Victoria Welby
- Significs and semiotics: Chronicle of an encounter foretold
- Hic et nunc: Evidence from canine zoosemiotics
- Lady Welby: Significs and the interpretive mind
- The translating and signifying subject as homo interpres and homo significans: Victoria Welby's concept of translation – a polyfunctional tool
- Semiosis and intersemiotic translation
- Signs, translation, and life in the Bakhtin circle and in Welby's significs
- Significs and mathematics: Creative and other subjects
- The sense, meaning, and significance of the Twin International Covenants on Political and Economic Rights
- Significal Designs: Translating for meanings that truly matter
- Mysticism and mind in Welby's significs
- On the translatability of liturgical texts: A significal perspective
- Money and metaphor in Welby Prize winner F. Tönnies' “Philosophical terminology”: Some critical considerations
- Lady Welby and logic
- Willing science – observing nature: Welby and Latour lift the veil
- In search of the other: Reading Victoria Welby's significs
- The aphasic utterance: A significal perspective
- The articulate music of language in The King's Speech
- Applying significs
- Presentation: Two texts at the beginning of a research itinerary. From significs to semioethics
- Theory of meaning and theory of knowledge: Vailati and Welby
- Sign and meaning in Victoria Welby and Mikhail Bakhtin: A confrontation
- Early recognitions of Welby's significs and the movement it inspired in the Netherlands
Articles in the same Issue
- Masthead
- Introduction
- Lady Welby and Lady Petrilli
- Victoria Lady Welby – A pioneer of semiotic thought rediscovered by Susan Petrilli
- The life of significance: Cultivating ingenuity no less than signs
- Mother sense and the image schema of the gift
- Signification, common knowledge, and womanhood: The significs of Lady Victoria Welby and beyond
- Science: The question of its limits
- Susan Petrilli's archival research on Victoria Welby and its implications for future scholarly inquiry
- The “dialogue” between Victoria Lady Welby and Mikhail Bakhtin – Reading Susan Petrilli's Signifying and Understanding
- Christine Ladd-Franklin's and Victoria Welby's correspondence with Charles Peirce
- Tracing signs of a developing science: On the correspondence between Victoria Lady Welby and Charles S. Peirce
- Signs, senses and cognition: Lady Welby and contemporary semiotics
- Space and time: Continuity in the correspondence between Charles Peirce and Victoria Welby
- Significs and semiotics: Chronicle of an encounter foretold
- Hic et nunc: Evidence from canine zoosemiotics
- Lady Welby: Significs and the interpretive mind
- The translating and signifying subject as homo interpres and homo significans: Victoria Welby's concept of translation – a polyfunctional tool
- Semiosis and intersemiotic translation
- Signs, translation, and life in the Bakhtin circle and in Welby's significs
- Significs and mathematics: Creative and other subjects
- The sense, meaning, and significance of the Twin International Covenants on Political and Economic Rights
- Significal Designs: Translating for meanings that truly matter
- Mysticism and mind in Welby's significs
- On the translatability of liturgical texts: A significal perspective
- Money and metaphor in Welby Prize winner F. Tönnies' “Philosophical terminology”: Some critical considerations
- Lady Welby and logic
- Willing science – observing nature: Welby and Latour lift the veil
- In search of the other: Reading Victoria Welby's significs
- The aphasic utterance: A significal perspective
- The articulate music of language in The King's Speech
- Applying significs
- Presentation: Two texts at the beginning of a research itinerary. From significs to semioethics
- Theory of meaning and theory of knowledge: Vailati and Welby
- Sign and meaning in Victoria Welby and Mikhail Bakhtin: A confrontation
- Early recognitions of Welby's significs and the movement it inspired in the Netherlands
