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Pragmatics in Dementia Discourse.

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 seman...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Guendouzi, Jacqueline, Davis, Boyd H.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.
Colección:Advances in pragmatics and discourse analysis.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 ...
Descripción Física:1 online resource (304 pages)
ISBN:9781443863759
1443863750
1306948517
9781306948517