Aphasia is a speech disorder that significantly affects the social functioning of people who have suffered a stroke. Although there is an increase in linguistic research on discourse, there is also an observable shortage of studies concerning cohesion and coherence in mixed aphasia in the Polish context. One of the determinants of cohesion is the conjunction, which was analysed in the utterances in the presented research. Among other things, a more frequent use of conjunctions was observed in the control group, and, by contrast, conjunctions were the rarest in those with mixed aphasia with a motor component. The study showed that patients with mixed aphasia with a sensory component used more conjunctions indicating purpose and cause-and-effect relationship, which may indicate attempts to form subordinate sentences and a desire to continue speaking. Research indicates the need to enrich therapeutic activities in exercises that develop the skill of using conjunctions properly in utterances.
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