摘要：Pragmatic language (i.e., the ability to process an intended message in reference to a specific context) is generallyimpaired in adults with focal right or left brain damage, traumatic brain injury, schizophrenia and Parkinson’s disease(PD). Pragmatic functions include the capacity to generate inferences and to understand non-literal language (e.g.,irony and metaphors). In everyday life, individuals with pragmatic deficits have difficulties to communicate and tounderstand language, which can lead them to social isolation. Pragmatic deficits do not generally appear withoutother impairments. Some studies observed a specific association between these deficits and social cognition abilities(i.e., the ability to represent mental states of others). They have shown that social cognition dysfunctions would bethe basis of pragmatic communication impairments in adults with acquired language disorders. Few studies have alsoobserved an association between pragmatic language deficits and executive functions (such as working memory) inacquired language disorders. However, until now, no study has evaluated both the impact of executive and socialcognition deficits on pragmatic language in PD.
