Exploring Linguistic Impairments of the Patients of Brocaas Aphasia and Wernickeas Aphasia in Bangladesh

Abstract

Language performance of human beings is inseparably related to their brain. There are some specific areas in the brain that are responsible for language understanding, organizing and producing. Broca's area and Wernicke's area are two such types of crucial areas of the brain which are, if affected or injured, responsible for linguistic problems, respectively known as Broca's Aphasia and Wernicke's Aphasia. Aphasia is a disorder of communication that impairs a person's ability to use and comprehend language. Broca's Aphasia is recognizable when the person affected has a difficulty in speech production, writing and finding specific words. A patient of Wernicke's aphasia may produce normal speeches but they are nearly nonsensical and irrelevant. His/her difficulty is in comprehending others' messages. The present study has investigated the linguistic behavior of some patients of Broca's Aphasia and Wernicke's Aphasia in Bangladesh and shows proximity of the empirical findings with the theoretical claims.