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Publication details [#12675]

Hamilton, Heidi Ehernberger. 1994. Conversations with an Alzeimer's patient. An interactional sociolinguistic study. Cambridge University Press. xii + 184 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

communicative failure | conversational analysis | disease terminology

ISBN

0-521-42101-2

Annotation

This study of communicative breakdowns in the conversations of an Alzheimer patient with her healthy interlocutors faces language disability as a human problem within multiple linguistic and social contexts.