Abstract
[...]lexical vulnerabilities as stuttering and aphasia portend cultural decline, an effect that Huxley explored at greater length in the following decade. According to medical histories of the period, such expressive fluency was not considered unusual for aphasic patients. Jacyna describes how aphasics contributed to their own narratives with "eager efforts," using whatever limited speech, facial expressions, and body language they could muster. [...]aphasic patients can take an "active [and dynamic] role in the generation of the case history" (91). According to Rohrer, Rossor, and Warren, "[t]he production of incomprehensible language containing frequent phonemic distortions, semantic errors or neologisms secondary to neurological disease has been termed jargon aphasia (or if writing is affected, jargon agraphia)" (155-159).