Publications

Publication details [#56312]

Lai, Yi-hsiu and Yu-te Lin. 2012. Discourse markers produced by Chinese-speaking seniors with and without Alzheimer's disease. Journal of Pragmatics 44 (14) : 1982–2003.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

dementia | discourse marker | function | mental faculty | old age

Language as a subject

Chinese

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This comparative study sets out to clarify the use of discourse markers by Chinese-speaking elderly persons with and without Alzheimer's disease (AD) in descriptive and narrative discourse, from the viewpoint of marker variety and the total use of markers accomplishing a function.