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| Analyzing discourse in communicatively impaired adults | | Author(s) | Leora Reiff Cherney, Barbara B Shadden, Carl A Coelho |
| Publisher | Aspen, Gaithersburg, MD, 1998 |
| Pages | 251 pp (Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago publication series) |
| Source | Aspen Publishers Inc, 7201 McKinney Circle, Frederick, Maryland 21704, USA. |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Communication ; Linguistics ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The analysis of discourse production may provide an understanding of the communication problems experienced by some people with Alzheimer's disease, aphasia or brain injury. The aim of this book is to provide health care professionals with clinically relevant techniques in discourse assessment. It covers the following areas: an introduction to pragmatics and discourse; obtaining the discourse sample; sentential/surface analyses; cohesion analyses; information analyses; and analysis of story grammar; analysis of conversation. An annotated bibliography covering literature on discourse characteristics of neurologically impaired adults is included. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-981006211 B |
| Classmark | EA: U: HJC: 7T |
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