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Pragmatics in dementia discourse / edited by Boyd H. Davis and Jacqueline Guendouzi.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Advances in pragmatics and discourse analysis.
- Advances in Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Caregivers--Psychology.
- Caregivers.
- Dementia--Patients--Care.
- Dementia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (304 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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...
- Contents:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PREFACE; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CONTRIBUTORS; SUBJECT INDEX
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 24, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 1-4438-6375-0
- OCLC:
- 883571219
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