A cross-sectional study to assess pragmatic strengths and weaknesses in healthy ageing.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Ageing refers to the natural and physiological changes that individuals experience over the years. This process also involves modifications in terms of communicative-pragmatics, namely the ability to convey meanings in social contexts and to interact with other people using various expressive means, such as linguistic, extralinguistic and paralinguistic aspects of communication. Very few studies have provided a complete assessment of communicative-pragmatic performance in healthy ageing.

Methods

The aim of this study was to comprehensively assess communicative-pragmatic ability in three samples of 20 (N = 60) healthy adults, each belonging to a different age range (20-40, 65-75, 76-86 years old) and to compare their performance in order to observe any potential ch

SUBMITTER: Hilviu D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9400309 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature