Reconsideration of Undifferenciated Jargon: Case Reports and Presentation of a New Classification of Jargon.

• Matsuda Minoru

  Department of Neurology, Shiga Prefectural Medical Center

• Suzuki Norio

  Department of Speech Therapy, Shiga Prefectural Medical Center

• Nabatame Hidehiko

  Department of Neurology, Shiga Prefectural Medical Center

• Nakamura Kazuo

  Department of Neurology, Shiga Prefectural Medical Center

• Nakaya Yosihumi

  Department of Neurology, Shiga Prefectural Medical Center

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 「未分化ジャルゴン」の再検討：症例報告と新しいジャルゴン分類の提唱

Abstract

    Three cases with jargon aphasia were reported. KS and TY had good articulation and almost of their speech was readily transcribable. Their utterance consisted of remarkable amount of neologism, and there were few recognizable words. Unlike neologistic jargon, however, there was no apparent differenciation of content words from function words, and word boundaries were unclear except for pauses. KH's utterance was composed of several strings of distorted phonemes in which even syllabic segmentation was unrecognizable. Therefore, his speech was almost untranscribable. Unlike non-fluent global aphasia, the amount of his utterance was not so small, speech-rate was relatively high, and there was no effort when attempting to produce utterance.<br>    We performed a historical review for undifferenciated jargon, and pointed out several confusions about this term. Basically in line with a classification advanced by Yamadori (1994) , we presented a modified version of classification in which the term “undifferenciated jargon” was abandoned. We have introduced the term untranscribable jargon to designate a form of jargon consisting of strings of unintelligible sounds in which even syllabic boundaries are unclear. The term syllabic jargon was adopted to designate a type of well-articulated jargon consisting of contineous stream of syllables without linguistic meanings. The difference between syllabic jargon and neologistic jargon is that the former affects function words as well as content words, while the latter leaving function words intact. The pathogenesis and the responsible lesions for the three types of jargon were discussed.

Journal

• Higher Brain Function Research

  Higher Brain Function Research 17 (4), 269-277, 1997

  Japanese Society of Aphasiology (Renamed as Japan Society for Higher Brain Dysfunction)

Keywords

• jargon
• undifferenciated jargon
• untranscribable jargon
• syllabic jargon
• neologistic jar-gon

Details

• CRID: 1390001204763107072
• NII Article ID: 130004893064
• NII Article ID: 10008100969
• NII Book ID: AN00329488
• DOI: 10.2496/apr.17.269
• ISSN: 18806716
• ISSN: 02859513
• ISSN: http://id.crossref.org/issn/02859513
• Web Site: https://search.jamas.or.jp/link/ui/1998095824
• Text Lang: ja
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