Publication details
Réflexions critiques sur les tests lexicaux proposés aux malades d’Alzheimer
| Title in English | Critical review of the lexical tests proposed to patients suffering from Alzheimer' disease |
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| Year of publication | 2016 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Texto ! Textes et Cultures |
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| Field | Linguistics |
| Keywords | Alzheimer; textual semantics; anomy; missing word; showing tests; naming tests; impairment; hermeneutics; observer’s paradox; discourse kind; textual kind |
| Description | This article is a critical review of the lexical tests (naming tests, showing tests, impairments) proposed to patients in order to make a diagnosis and to define a treatment in Alzheimer’s disease. Indeed, patients are confronted with artificial situations of communication in which the observer’s paradox is not taken into consideration. Moreover, these tests simply keep quiet the construction of the lexicon as the contemporaneous textual semantics understands it, namely networks designed from discourse kinds to morphemes. According to the expertise of corpus linguistics, we thus try to show how other tests are possible. |