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Vai Ramanathan, Alzheimer discourse: Some sociolinguistic dimensions. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 1997. Pp. x, 138. Hb $36.00, pb $18.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 1999

Ruth Lesser
Ruth Lesser
Affiliation:
Dept. of Speech, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, England, ruth.lesser@newcastle.ac.uk
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Abstract

Until the last few years, linguists' interest in the language of the neurologically impaired has been primarily from two orientations: psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic. The former has applied theories concerning the mental processing of language, using acquired language disorders as a test bed for exploring and expanding these theories. The latter attempts to correlate language (disordered or not) with functional lesion sites in the brain; it has recently received a major boost from the technical developments of functional brain imaging, but its main theoretical base remains that of psycholinguistic processing.

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Language in Society , Volume 28 , Issue 1 , January 1999 , pp. 110 - 113
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© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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