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∗ Abstract - This paper examines the use of verbal demonstration (Clark and Gerrig 1990), as in the quotative and non-quotative use of direct speech, in a spontaneous conversation with a patient with Broca's aphasia. Our claim is that our aphasic patient functionally adapts his speech to his damaged cognitive capacities through a vast use of demonstration as opposed to description. At the same time, we claim that there is no significant difference between the use of direct speech by our aphasic patient and a control without aphasia. In both cases, three features of demonstration were identified: 1) vividness, 2) multifunctionality, and 3) metonymy. These, together with the extensive use of elliptical utterances, which equally draw heavily on cognitive and conversational involvement of the interlocutor, make the aphasic speech highly economic. In our view, this may explain why our aphasic patient manages to be communicatively efficient, despite his severe language impairment. The ideas in this paper are in tune with Janssen's (to appear) 'speaker-hearer grammar,' his view of ellipsis as involving metonymy (2006), and the work on direct speech used as 'fictive verbal interaction' by Pascual and Janssen (2004) and Janssen (in press). 1. Inleiding In dit artikel richten we ons op de functie van verbale demonstratie in conver- saties (Clark en Gerrig 1990), zoals bij het gebruik van de directe rede, als een manier om referenten op te voeren in plaats van te beschrijven. Vanuit dat per- spectief gaan we na hoe demonstratie wordt gebruikt om uitdrukking te geven aan subjectieve en objectieve zaken, zoals gedachten, gevoelens, handelingen en situaties op een manier die ten dienste staat van optimaal economisch taalge- bruik. Onze focus ligt op het gebruik van demonstratie door een afatische spre- ker met agrammatisme. Sprekers met deze morfosyntactische stoornis maken overmatig gebruik van elliptische zinnen ofwel 'telegramstijl.' Het specifieke gebruik van demonstratie in onze casus zal worden vergeleken met dat van een controlepatient zonder afasie.
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