Penelitian tentang terapi linguistik sudah banyak dilakukan terhadap pasien yang menderita disartria. Disartria adalah gangguan dalam bertutur yang disebabkan oleh kerusakan sistem saraf pusat yang secara langsung mengontrol aktivitas otot-otot yang berperan dalam proses tuturan dalam pembentukan suara pengucapan. Kajian ini membahas tiga isu, yakni bentuk-bentuk lingual dapat diterapkan pada penderita disartria sebelum memperoleh terapi linguistik, pengaruh-pengaruh emosional terhadap pengetahuan leksikal dan semantis dari pasien, dan capaian model terapi linguistik yang diterapkan pada pasien disartria yang kemampuan bertuturnya sudah cacat. Dalam menganalisis data, kajian ini menggunakan teori Prins (2004) dan metode Nunan (1992) yang dipadu dengan Sudaryanto (1993). Bersadarkan penelitian yang sudah dilakukan sebelumnya, dan dengan menerapkan model terapi linguistik, ditemukan bahwa terdapat peningkatan berbicara pasien, hampir 40 persen dari indeks pengetahuan atau informasi lingual, 20 persen semantik, dan 40 persen perasaan. Indeks lingual sangat penting sebagai sebuah cara terapi bagi pasien yang menderita disartria. Peningkatan dalam kemampuan bertutur ini menambah rasa percaya diri bagi penderita disatria di dalam kehidupan sosial.

This paper explains the significance of neurolinguistics as one of interdisciplinary fields of linguistics encompassing the analytical procedures on individual speech disorders in producing and using language. The result of analysis is used for designing a model and strategy to improve their language capacity.  Neurolinguistics roadmap covers some previous researches done by Sastra et all since 2006. Those studies investigate language and speech disorders including thinking ailments, and answer the inherent question on neurolinguistics contribution for addressing the individual problems to express themselves. Those problems are caused by some disorders on the left and right hemispheres of the brain. Science wise, neurolinguistics will always develop because the language phenomena always happen in human life through thinking and speech.

This article is aimed at identifying and explaining the form of receptive disorder, describing the form of expressive disorder, and investigating nonlinguistics factors which cause language disorder on Attention Deficit Disorder patient, at case Ichsan.

This paper explains the Indonesian cultural content for BIPA teaching and learning materials in even semester at Wako University of Japan. There are 20 students, male and female, and 2 teachers. The Indonesian cultural content includes kinship, arts, culinary, tourism, and hobbies. These aspects are the local content in teaching Bahasa Indonesia for Wako University students since they are about to study in Indonesia for a short period. The results of this research show the students are interested in those five cultural aspects. They are mostly attracted to the culinary, and they are less interested in the aspects of kinship. Thus, the results of using the learning materials on Indonesian cultural content show the students' tendency or specific interests in learning BIPA. There are some factors explaining this percentage of interests as follow: purpose, method, and learning time. Those materials of cultural content and factors are observed through students' proficiency on reading, writing, listening, and speaking.

This research aims to describe and to translate the emotional prosody patterns through Praat program and also to describe types of speech acts used by female characters in an emotional state in the film ‘7 Hati 7 Cinta 7 Wanita’. Emotional prosody of speech is analyzed by using the Praat program, which is then classified into types of particular speech acts. The emotional prosody patterns can be seen in the melodic accent and the temporal accent. In the melodic accent, speech that uses declarative and interrogative mode makes the tone flow increased, and the speech that uses imperative mode makes the tone flow decreased. In the temporal accent, the speeches with the longest and the shortest anger emotions are the ones that use declarative mode. Next, the woman character is known to use four types of speech act when getting angry, which are; literal direct speech act, non-literal direct speech act, literal indirect speech act, non-literal indirect speech act.