This book by the well-known neuropsychologist and neurolinguist T. V. Akhutina is the third in a series of books devoted to the mechanisms of speech production based on aphasia. The first book, Neurolinguistic Analysis of Dynamic Aphasia (1975 | 2nd ed. 2002), is devoted to the mechanisms of discourse construction, the second book, Speech Generation. Neurolinguistic Analysis of Syntax (1989 | 4th ed. 2012) reveals the interaction of three syntax variants. This third book contains articles on the vocabulary of the 1970s-1980s, on the semantics of the 1980s-1990s. and articles of the last decade on pragmatics. In this edition, they are revised and supplemented with new data on aphasiology and neurolinguistics.A student of A. R. Luria T. V. Akhutina analyzes the speech of patients with aphasia from the theoretical positions of L. S. Vygotsky and A. R. Luria and uses these data to concretize the provisions of L. S. Vygotsky on the path from thought to the word, to further develop the model for generating speech, proposed by her together with A. A. Leontiev.The book is addressed to psychologists, linguists, speech therapists , specialists in the field of cognitive neuroscience, as well as a wide range of readers interested in the mechanisms of speech production and understanding.