Title Pragmatics in Dementia Discourse.

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Description	1 online resource (304 pages).
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Series	Advances in pragmatics and discourse analysis
	Advances in pragmatics and discourse analysis.
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 ...
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Subject	Alzheimer's disease.
	Alzheimer's disease.
	Caregivers -- Psychology.
	Caregivers -- Psychology.
	Dementia -- Patients -- Care.
	Dementia -- Patients -- Care.
	Dementia.
	Dementia.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Electronic books.
Added Author	Guendouzi, Jacqueline.
	Davis, Boyd H.
Other Form:	Print version: Guendouzi, Jacqueline. Pragmatics in Dementia Discourse. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ©2013 9781443851671
ISBN	9781443863759 (electronic book)
	1443863750 (electronic book)
	1306948517 (e-book)
	9781306948517 (e-book)