Conversations With an Alzheimer''s Patient - An Interactional Sociolinguistic Study

Klappentext Interactional sociolinguistic study of progressive communicative breakdown of an Alzheimer's patient. Zusammenfassung This interactional sociolinguistic examination of the language in open-ended! naturally occurring conversations between the author and one elderly female Alzheimer's patient! over four-and-a-half years! offers an alternative approach to the typical psycholinguistic studies of groups of patients in clinical settings. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Communicative profile of Elsie; 3. Questions; 4. Responses; 5. Conclusions and implications; References; Index.

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• Authors: Heidi Ehernberger Hamilton, Heidi Ehernberger (Georgetown University Hamilton, Hamilton Heidi Ehernberger
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.11.2005
• EAN: 9780521023184
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02318-4
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Sociolinguistics, Geriatric medicine, Alzheimer’s and dementia