Among all aspects of the linguistic and communicative competence, pragmatics seems
especially vulnerable in aging, due also to cognitive decline. However, pragmatics has …

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

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 …

The CorpAGEst project aims to study the pragmatic competence of very old people (75 years
old and more), by looking at their use of verbal and gestural pragmatic markers in real-world …

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 …

This chapter considers the everyday psychological and social costs attached to having
pragmatic language difficulties. We briefly review key terminology concerning pragmatic …

Background Behavioural and neuropsychological studies on elderly populations
concentrate on many aspects of cognitive functioning, but significantly less research …

Pragmatic disruption is associated with a range of acquired communication disorders of both
neurogenic and psychiatric origin. This chapter provides an overview of the main themes in …

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 …

Background One of the most important ingredients of felicitous conversation exchanges is
the adequate expression of illocutionary force and the achievement of perlocutionary effects …