Model opisu interakcji osób z afazją

The object of this paper is a description of interaction with ill people – ones experiencing speech disorders, called aphasia in the relevant literature, as a result of damage to the central nervous system. The characteristics of the interaction in which people with aphasia take part involves a specifi c use of three elements: a) a verbalised (text, pathological text) or non-verbal message; b) an utterance about a message (a metatext in two functions: organising the message and defi ning the meaning of the verbal and non-verbal signs used); c) the sender’s and the recipient’s knowledge of textual and extratextual considerations of interaction (textual, linguistic and situational contexts). The adoption of an interactive approach in research on aphasia permitted the dynamic approach to three categories: text, metatext and context. Cognitive and communicative abilities of people with aphasia were proved through the discovery of the rules of transformation of these categories in the course of interaction.