ABSTRACT
This chapter aims at providing an overview of some of the methods used to study disorders of language production in adults. After providing an historical sketch of the problem, and introducing some of the most recent issues, the attention will be focused on the tasks used to assess language production in patients (naming tasks, fluency tasks, grammatical production tasks, conversation analysis and discourse analysis) showing the usefulness of a multilevel procedure of discourse analysis. The chapter will end with a few recommendations for practice and considerations about the neural underpinning of such skills and their potential future applications in both assessment and rehabilitation.
