Lexical Substitution and Paraphasia in Advanced Dementia of the Alzheimer Type
The paper presents the case study of lexical selection in Alzheimer-type dementia. Lexical substitutions in poem recitation and conversations of a Russian speaker, who suffered Alzheimer-type dementia, were analyzed on the background of the lexical retrieval and slip-of-the-tongue phenomena. The cla...
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| description | The paper presents the case study of lexical selection in Alzheimer-type dementia. Lexical substitutions in poem recitation and conversations of a Russian speaker, who suffered Alzheimer-type dementia, were analyzed on the background of the lexical retrieval and slip-of-the-tongue phenomena. The classification of the substitutions is worked out on the basis of the links between a target word and its substitutions. The current context plays an essential role as natural priming for a substitution in a poem recitation. Some words have predisposition to be lost; the units belong to the figurative language or to the category of infrequent lexemes. In conversation, the patient masked failures by referring to the circumstances and appealing to the sense of humor. Positive emotions facilitate recollecting of words, involved in the description of real-life events, due to the relatively spared nondeclarative memory. The changes in the substitutions and paraphasias categories between AD stages are statistically significant. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a652fa167d1d48e7989fe6db4a4037372022-12-21T19:13:22ZengSciendoPsychology of Language and Communication2083-85062017-12-0121130632410.1515/plc-2017-0015plc-2017-0015Lexical Substitution and Paraphasia in Advanced Dementia of the Alzheimer TypeOvchinnikova Irina0Pavlova Anna1Perm State University, Perm, Permskiy kray, Russian FederationJohannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 76726 Germersheim An der Hochschule 2, GermanyThe paper presents the case study of lexical selection in Alzheimer-type dementia. Lexical substitutions in poem recitation and conversations of a Russian speaker, who suffered Alzheimer-type dementia, were analyzed on the background of the lexical retrieval and slip-of-the-tongue phenomena. The classification of the substitutions is worked out on the basis of the links between a target word and its substitutions. The current context plays an essential role as natural priming for a substitution in a poem recitation. Some words have predisposition to be lost; the units belong to the figurative language or to the category of infrequent lexemes. In conversation, the patient masked failures by referring to the circumstances and appealing to the sense of humor. Positive emotions facilitate recollecting of words, involved in the description of real-life events, due to the relatively spared nondeclarative memory. The changes in the substitutions and paraphasias categories between AD stages are statistically significant.https://doi.org/10.1515/plc-2017-0015alzheimer diseaseslips of the tonguelexical substitutionverbal associationsdementia |
| spellingShingle | Ovchinnikova Irina Pavlova Anna Lexical Substitution and Paraphasia in Advanced Dementia of the Alzheimer Type Psychology of Language and Communication alzheimer disease slips of the tongue lexical substitution verbal associations dementia |
| title | Lexical Substitution and Paraphasia in Advanced Dementia of the Alzheimer Type |
| title_full | Lexical Substitution and Paraphasia in Advanced Dementia of the Alzheimer Type |
| title_fullStr | Lexical Substitution and Paraphasia in Advanced Dementia of the Alzheimer Type |
| title_full_unstemmed | Lexical Substitution and Paraphasia in Advanced Dementia of the Alzheimer Type |
| title_short | Lexical Substitution and Paraphasia in Advanced Dementia of the Alzheimer Type |
| title_sort | lexical substitution and paraphasia in advanced dementia of the alzheimer type |
| topic | alzheimer disease slips of the tongue lexical substitution verbal associations dementia |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1515/plc-2017-0015 |
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