BROCA APHASIA LANGUAGE IMPAIRMENT IN SARAH SCOTT’S YOUTUBE CHANNEL

Aphasia is a language disorder caused by brain damage and makes the patient lose or impair skills. One of diseases which often cause people to experience aphasia stroke. In this study, researchers observed characteristics impairment Sarah Scott. She’s young woman suffering from Broca's after This study employed qualitative descriptive method on utterances she produced in SymphUK YouTube channel as data source. collecting data, watched transcribed containing disorder. The analysis used theory Hallowel (2017) Ardila (2014) about linguistics defects aphasia. finding shows that most dominant characteristic was dysnomia, literal (phonemic) paraphasia, agrammatism among twenty-six utterances. Then, other also appeared were disfluency, repetition, telegraphic speech. Furthermore, levels language-impaired Scott morphemic, morphosyntactic, phonetic. Thus, following should cover more subjects with different age, gender, see whether variation appears contexts.