Cognitive impairment and pragmatics

BACKGROUND: One of the most important ingredients of felicitous conversation exchanges is the adequate expression of illocutionary force and the achievement of perlocutionary effects, which can be considered essential to the functioning of pragmatic competence. FINDINGS: The breakdown of illocutiona...

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Autores principales: Gutiérrez-Rexach, Javier, Schatz, Sara
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2016
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Short Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4759438/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26933626
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40064-016-1759-7
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description BACKGROUND: One of the most important ingredients of felicitous conversation exchanges is the adequate expression of illocutionary force and the achievement of perlocutionary effects, which can be considered essential to the functioning of pragmatic competence. FINDINGS: The breakdown of illocutionary and perlocutionary functions is one of the most prominent external features of cognitive impairment in Alzheimer’s Disease, with devastating psychological and social consequences for patients, their family and caregivers. CONCLUSIONS: The study of pragmatic functions is essential for a proper understanding of the linguistic and communicative aspects of Alzheimer’s disease.
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spelling pubmed-47594382016-03-01 Cognitive impairment and pragmatics Gutiérrez-Rexach, Javier Schatz, Sara Springerplus Short Report BACKGROUND: One of the most important ingredients of felicitous conversation exchanges is the adequate expression of illocutionary force and the achievement of perlocutionary effects, which can be considered essential to the functioning of pragmatic competence. FINDINGS: The breakdown of illocutionary and perlocutionary functions is one of the most prominent external features of cognitive impairment in Alzheimer’s Disease, with devastating psychological and social consequences for patients, their family and caregivers. CONCLUSIONS: The study of pragmatic functions is essential for a proper understanding of the linguistic and communicative aspects of Alzheimer’s disease. Springer International Publishing 2016-02-19 /pmc/articles/PMC4759438/ /pubmed/26933626 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40064-016-1759-7 Text en © Gutiérrez-Rexach and Schatz. 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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