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Question: what is bilingual aphasia? I know Wernicke's aphasia, and Primaryaphasia, and Global aphasia. Is it where you have problems with onelanguage but not another? Or you know two languages and have trouble withboth of them? can anyone give me some suggestions???
Answer: Bilingualism is the ability to speak two languages or dialects. Code-switchingis the language phenomenon where a bilingual speaker switches from one languageto another within the same conversation. Bilingual speakers will code-switchfor various reasons based on a set of Rules and Obligations. “Effectivecodeswitching is an important aspect of a bilingual speaker’s communicativestrategy...” (Munoz 1999) So bilingual aphasia is just when you are bilingual and have brain damage. Soit includes the Wernicke's, global, etc etc etc... but then there are caseswhere they might retain one language and not the other... or seem to have onetype of aphasia for one language and another for the other language, but Ithink these cases are just faulty data. There doesn't seem to be anyconclusive data one way or the other so I am just reporting on what I havefound. Really I am more than a little confused and my brain doesn't seem towant to work lately. I have nine days left to write 10 more pages. *groan*and then I have the other paper, Spanish/English Code-Switching to finish, butI already have about 8 pages and I just need to fill in some information andtree diagrams and then I'll be finished. This bilingual aphasia paper isseriously getting on my nerves though and I really need to finish it or I don'tget to graduate and then all these years in college and the school loans andthe blood and pain and toil have been for nothing! *sigh*
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