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 …

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 …

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

Background Ageing refers to the natural and physiological changes that individuals
experience over the years. This process also involves modifications in terms of …

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

The goal of understanding how pragmatics and dementia are related to each other
challenges us to understand how language is used by large numbers of individuals with …

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 …

Jokes understanding is an important part of people's social life, especially in aging.
However, little is known about older adults' humor understanding and the role of the …