Normally, aging adults experience a wide range of changes in sensory abilities, cognition,
and language. Pragmatic language ability, or social use of language, declines primarily as a …

There is now an extensive empirical literature on the nature and extent of pragmatic
disorders in a range of clinical populations. This chapter attempts to organize the findings of …

This article presents a multimodal video corpus with the principal aim to model and predict
the effects of aging in Mild Cognitive Impairment situation on pragmatic and communicative …

In this article, the current state of our knowledge of pragmatic disorders in adults with
language impairment is assessed. A brief historical background of clinical pragmatics is …

Older adults' ability to perceive, comprehend, and produce language has been an area of
interest to researchers in recent years. One of the core questions under study has been …

The role of executive functions in supporting the pragmatics of communication has been
extensively examined in clinical populations, but is still under-explored in healthy aging. In …

Research investigating pragmatic abilities in healthy aging suggests that both production
and comprehension might be compromised; however, it is not clear how pragmatic abilities …

Purpose This study identifies genres of communication that avoid the features of elderspeak
and successfully engage cognitively or physically affected older adults in rich …

Language in old age has been an active research area since early experimental
investigations in cognitive aging (eg, Craik & Masani, 1967; Riegel & Riegel, 1964). This is …

The ability to communicate is essential if older adults are to solicit assistance with daily living
activities; fulfill life-long learning goals; gain access to health and legal information from …