Pragmatics in Dementia Discourse:
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Newcastle upon Tyne Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2013
Series:Advances in pragmatics and discourse analysis
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:Alison Wray notes that ""Alzheimer's Disease affects language in many different ways. Directly, language processing is undermined by damage to the language areas of the brain. Indirectly, language is compromised by short term memory loss, distortions in perception, and disturbed semantic representation ... All of this makes AD an obvious focus of interest for linguists and in particular, those interested in the field of pragmatics - yet a striking amount of what is published about AD languag ..
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (304 pages)
ISBN:9781443863759
1443863750

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