Analyze how damage to the right hemisphere can have an impact on language and cause pragmatic impairments

The essay will be about pragmatic language impairments. In particular as a result of damage to the RIGHT
hemisphere (NOT the LEFT hemisphere). You can certainly start off in the Introduction by mentioning the
theory of lateralisation (that is how right and left hemisphere have supposedly different functions). You can also
explain that there is a lot of research about language impairments when the left hemisphere is damaged (the left
hemisphere is considered the site of language), but there is not as much about RIGHT hemisphere which is the
focus of the essay. Explain the role of the right hemisphere with regards to pragmatic functions. Remember that
this is an essay for a module in Neurolinguistics. Therefore, the focus has to be on the linguistic aspect, anything
that is related to language (ignore things like difficulty in understanding people’s facial expressions or changes in
behaviour due to right hemisphere damage). You only have to analyse the effects on different aspects of
language such as

• Speech acts (a threat, joke, promise).
  • Register (may be overly informal).
  • Initiating, terminating, turn-taking in
  conversational exchanges.
  • Providing sufficient information for
  communicative intention (relevance).
  • Adequate or appropriate prosody/tone.
  • Coherence of discourse topic, maintenance and
  shift
  I am attaching a file called “Pragmatic impairments” which is a set of slides by Marjorie Lorch. Those slides are
  the actual class I had in this topic. Please, read to get an idea on how to structure the essay and which topics to
  cover and DO NOT USE IT AS A REFERENCE. I am also attaching 15 other sources but I will need a total of
  23-25. Ideally the sources will have to be within the last 5-7 years (10 years maximum) and preferably from my
  University digital catalogue (I will give you the login as such as a writer has been assigned).
  The idea of the essay is to analyse how damage to the right hemisphere can have an impact on language and
  cause pragmatic impairments