Abstract
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the discourse abilities of persons with aphasia and compare them with those of normal adults. Both groups were presented with five strips of a comic story taken from Ulatowska et al. (1981; 1983). The two groups were independently asked first to arrange the strips in the order of the story and then to verbalize the whole story. The result was that the aphasia group revealed lower abilites in both recognition and production, and that the superstructure of their discourse production was fewer than that prodused by the normal group. The next step should be to find a better way to analyze discourse by applying the same method to various kinds of materials such as a episodic discourse, a procedural discourse, etc., so that the level of difficulty of each text could be clearly shown in figures.
