Significant routines and discourse practices: an experience report on an aphasics conviviality

Abstract

The Aphasics Conviviality Center (CCA) is the result of a united action involving the Linguistics Department and the Neurology Department at Campinas STATE university (Unicamp). The Center is part of the Neuropsychology and Neurolinguistics Unity (UNNE), which gathers professors and researchers from both departments. These professionals are responsible for the clinical and therapeutic attendance on brain-stroke subjects and for the activities developed at the Center to promote interaction between aphasic and non-aphasic subjects. Considering that aphasia is essentially a discourse issue for us (not merely a health issue), OUR WORK AT THIS center for research and clinical orientation is mainly interested in sociocultural experience and in mobilizing the discourse practices on such experience. In this paper, I will try to explain the theoretical and methodological basis of the work developed at the Center through the exposition of the general principles that regulate its dynamics and functioning.