ESTUDO DE CASO DE UM SUJEITO COM AFASIA MOTORA EFERENTE NA PERSPECTIVA BAKHTINIANA

This article aims to present a case-study and has as the theoretical background the Discursive Neurolinguistics (ND), in which language is considered as an activity of socio-historical-cultural nature. In aphasias, where there are alterations in language functioning following brain injuries, ND presupposes that the subjects, with their experience as speakers, have not completely lost their linguistic competence; they reorganize their verbal and non-verbal utterances using the linguistic resources which still have remained. The present study analyzes the production of a subject with efferent motor aphasia, of a severe degree, and: i) describes the characteristics of his utterances, which in traditional literature are considered as “recurring utterances”; ii) interprets his rich non-verbal expressions; iii) demonstrates how the casestudy may be considered as a productive methodology for the Neurolinguistics theory. The longitudinal follow-up was chosen as the research methodology and the analyses are qualitative. At the end of the research, it was possible to better understand the subject strategy’s to signify by means of the non-verbal language, despite his difficulties, which grounds the therapeutic work with subjects with severe cases of aphasia.