Two Aspects of Language and Two Types of Aphasic Disturbances by Roman Jakobson-A Critical Analysis

This seminal text is an inspiration for linguists, literary theorists and semioticians. The essay deals with two types of Aphasic Disturbances. It works on syntagmatic or paradigmatic axis of sentences. The abnormal speech behavior divides into similarity disorders and Contiguity disorders . Jakobson associates these disorders with the common figures of speech like metaphor and metonymy.
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I read from a source that similarity disorder is paradigmatic and contiguity disorder is syntagmatic. I am confused. Kindly clarify.Thanks in advance!

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Similarity disorder restricts the victims’ ability to select words from the paradigmatic axis. They cannot find words that exist as parts of the system, the dimension of the language universe that is at any given time absent from consciousness.We all have the ability to reach for more or less obscure elements of our vocabulary at any time, though we need not be conscious of these elements most of the time. But these aphasics have severely limited access to this fund and generally need some kind of prompt before they can say anything. The important thing for victims of the similarity disorder is that, having lost the power to select from the pool of language, they rely on what is already present--the present context. They cannot start dialogues but they are able to continue or complete them after a fashion. Or they can come up with sentences that are at best the sequel of imagined previous utterances.