Il discorso del presidente
Freely adapted from Oliver Sacks' "The man who mistook his wife for a hat".
From the text:
Why all this? Because speech—natural speech—does not consist of words alone, nor (as Hughlings
Jackson thought) ‘propositions’ alone. It consists of utterance—an uttering-forth of one’s whole
meaning with one’s whole being—the understanding of which involves infinitely more than mere wordrecognition. And this was the clue to aphasiacs’ understanding, even when they might be wholly
uncomprehending of words as such.
From the text:
Why all this? Because speech—natural speech—does not consist of words alone, nor (as Hughlings
Jackson thought) ‘propositions’ alone. It consists of utterance—an uttering-forth of one’s whole
meaning with one’s whole being—the understanding of which involves infinitely more than mere wordrecognition. And this was the clue to aphasiacs’ understanding, even when they might be wholly
uncomprehending of words as such.
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