Alzheimer Talk, Text and Context: Enhancing Communication

Davis, B.

The contributors to this volume reference a shared, longitudinal corpus of spontaneous conversation elicited in natural settings from speakers with moderate to late moderate Alzheimer's Disease, utilizing other collections as appropriate, to analyze conversation, discourse and written text by and about Alzheimer's speech. Cross-disciplinary contributions from the USA, Canada, New Zealand and Germany, representing linguistics, gerontology, geriatric nursing, computer science, and communications disorders report on empirically-based investigations of social and pragmatic language competencies and strategies retained by AD patients which could ground communication enhancements or interventions.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2005-06-28

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781403935328

DOI: 10.1057/9780230502024

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 254