ABSTRACT
In work dealing with aphasic patients, the usual approach to aphasia consists in testing patients in order to assess their linguistic competence. Insofar as our point of view is ethological, we have analyzed videotaped recordings of several such patients. However, studying mimics and gesture on a screen is somewhat like looking at T.V. in a foreign country or like looking at someone gesticulating in a telephone booth; body movements are the cues to what is being said.
