The chapter addresses the crucial question of what narrativity is all about from a neurolinguistic perspective. The argument outlined derives from a clinical investigation of patients with executive dysfunctions which have delayed abilities in planning actions, working memory, and cognitive flexibility. Linked with that, they often show a lack of coherence in the processing of narrative texts. In this respect, the neurolinguistic investigation of the patients’ comprehension and production of core propositions and inferences in narratives allows for insights in the cognitive prerequisites of narrativity. The results provide strong evidence that the communicative impairments reflect a specific deficit in verbal planning at the interface between linguistic and cognitive processing. This supports the claim that sequentiality, which is considered to be the core principle in many linguistic definitions of narrativity, is clearly not a sufficient criterion to characterize the basic principles of narrativity. Instead, it has been shown that it is the ability of perspectivization and macro-structural planning that should be seen as one of the major neurolinguistic preconditions for processing coherent narrative structures.
2024. Narrative production and executive functions in post-stroke agrammatic aphasia. Aphasiology► pp. 1 ff.
Büttner-Kunert, Julia, Sarah Blöchinger, Zofia Falkowska, Theresa Rieger & Charlotte Oslmeier
2022. Interaction of discourse processing impairments, communicative participation, and verbal executive functions in people with chronic traumatic brain injury. Frontiers in Psychology 13
2022. The MAKRO Screening – an assessment tool for discourse deficits in adults with dysexecutive symptoms following TBI. Brain Injury 36:4 ► pp. 514 ff.
Janssen, Lonneke, Annette Scheper, Martina De Groot, Katja Daamen, Margot Willemsen, Constance Vissers & Ludo Verhoeven
2020. Narrative group intervention in DLD: Learning to tell the plot. Child Language Teaching and Therapy 36:3 ► pp. 181 ff.
Zeman, Sonja
2020. Narrativität als linguistische Kategorie. Zeitschrift für germanistische Linguistik 48:3 ► pp. 447 ff.
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