aphasiacs

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Another essay deals with a group of aphasiacs - people who through damage to their speech centres can no longer understand speech - who watch a televised speech by an unnamed politician (heavily hinted to be Ronald Reagan), and who are brought to hysterical laughter by the insincerity of his tone and body language.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
My favorite text on this subject, which uses the example of a group of aphasiacs watching Ronald Reagan deliver an address on TV, appeared in the New York Review of Books 20 years ago proving I haven’t lost my memory yet, I’m thrilled to report.

Yearning for Freedom 2005