Alzheimer Discourse
This book deals with the narrative discourse--specifically lifestories--of 16 patients suffering from Alzheimer''s disease (AD). It attempts to understand the discourse of these patients in contextual terms. Thus far, the dominant explanation for "incoherence" in AD speech has been largely provided by research in psycholinguistics, much of which has understood AD speech in terms of the progressive...
This book deals with the narrative discourse--specifically lifestories--of 16 patients suffering from Alzheimer''s disease (AD). It attempts to understand the discourse of these patients in contextual terms. Thus far, the dominant explanation for "incoherence" in AD speech has been largely provided by research in psycholinguistics, much of which has understood AD speech in terms of the progressive...
