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Alcohol dependence is the chronic disease which damages many systems and organs. The toxic influence of alcohol on the central nervous system leads to durable numbers and size reduction of neurons and neural connections, especially within the frontal structures, the limbic system and the cerebellum. These changes have the consequence in cognitive impairments including executive cognitive impairments and memory deficits and emotional information processing disorder. Cognitive deficits, in turn, affect the way of understanding human reality and the opportunity to represent it in the language behavior. Diagnosis of speech disorders in the persons depended on alcohol can be accomplished by evaluating the narrative skills that reflect the knowledge of the world included in the human mind, what is more – the way of cognitive world representation. The article is an innovative (on the ground of logopedia) attempt to define the research methodology, that will allow to describe the language disorder in alcoholism.