Purpose: to analyze the narrative, descriptive, conversational and procedural discourse of fluent aphasic individuals and to compare their performance with healthy individuals. Methods: the authors selected by a systematic sample 22 fluent aphasic individuals complaining of discursive difficulty and that presented language disorders poststroke. The individuals are or were in treatment in the institution of origin. The aphasic individuals were matched in age and education. Both groups were subjected to a protocol of oral discursive tasks to the evaluation of narrative, descriptive, conversational and procedural discourse. Results: in most of the investigated variables there were statistically significant differences in all types of discourse in the quantitative and qualitative analysis. Conclusion: aphasic individuals presented better performance in narrative discourse and greater difficulty in the other discourse tasks, although when comparing their discourse with the healthy individuals' discourse they presented greater difficulty in all the oral discursive genres. Keywords: Language; Speech; Communication; Aphasia; Evaluation; Stroke. RESUMOObjetivo: analisar os discursos narrativo, descritivo, conversacional e procedural de indivíduos afásicos fluentes e compará-los com indivíduos saudáveis. Métodos: foram selecionados, por meio de amostragem sistemática, 22 indivíduos afásicos fluentes com queixas de dificuldade discursiva e que apresentam alteração de linguagem pós-acometimento em Sistema Nervoso Central decorrente de Acidente Vascular Encefálico, que estão ou já estiveram em tratamento na instituição de origem. Estes foram pareados a indivíduos saudáveis de mesma idade e escolaridade e ambos os grupos foram submetidos a um protocolo de tarefas discursivas orais para avaliação dos discursos narrativo, explicativo, conversacional e procedural. Resultados: houve diferenças estatisticamente significantes na maioria das variáveis investigadas em todos os tipos de discursos tanto na análise quantitativa quanto na qualitativa. Conclusão: indivíduos afásicos apresentaram maior facilidade no discurso narrativo e maior dificuldade nos demais discursos, porém comparando-os aos indivíduos saudáveis apresentaram maior dificuldade em todos os gêneros discursivos orais.
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