著者

久保田 正人

出版者

千葉大学

雑誌

言語文化論叢

巻号頁・発行日

vol.6, pp.1-25, 1999-12-27

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The presentation in monograph form of a topic such as agrammatism to which our best neurology textbook does not dedicate much more than three lines and which is touched on only occasionally in comprehensive presentations of aphasia requires a justification even when the topic has been chosen only as the starting-point of a further, far-reaching description. This whole book constitutes such a justification…. The minimal appreciation of agrammatism is apparently based on important arguments, I.e., on the in-frequency of the symptom, the minor significance which comes to it as a disorder, and finally the allegedly still controversial localization of it. The last aspect carries more weight as the inference was added to it that accordingly agrammatism does not have localizational importance in every case…. [It must be stated]….that agrammatism does not represent just a mere "peculiarity" in the area of aphasiology; on the contrary, it will become evident that: the process of the grammatical-syntactic formulation, which is basic to the disorder(s) of agrammatism, forms the bridge, or more specifically, forms a very particular part of a bridge between psychic conception and linguistic alienation of speech. Hence, agrammatism becomes, as it were, the center of aphasiology.