Journal of Modern Foreign Psychology
2017. Vol. 6, no. 3, 39–52
doi:10.17759/jmfp.2017060305
ISSN: 2304-4977 (online)
Specificity of pragmatic features of language in elderly age: principles of diagnosis and direction of therapy
Abstract
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Keywords: pragmatic language, pragmatic competence, socio-cognitive processes, metapragmatics ability, deficit of pragmatic language, elderly, old age
Journal rubric: Medical Psychology
Article type: review article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/jmfp.2017060305
For citation: Melehin A. Specificity of pragmatic features of language in elderly age: principles of diagnosis and direction of therapy [Elektronnyi resurs]. Sovremennaia zarubezhnaia psikhologiia = Journal of Modern Foreign Psychology, 2017. Vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 39–52. DOI: 10.17759/jmfp.2017060305. (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)
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