Linguagem e cognição em portadores de Alzheimer: uma abordagem sociocognitiva

• Autor(a) principal: Teófilo, Anna Mayra Araújo
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFPB
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/6412
• topic: Linguagem; Cognição Social; Interação Social; Doença de Alzheimer; Language; Social Cognition; Social Interaction; Alzheimer's Disease; LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LINGUISTICA

The Alzheimer s phatology is understood as a brain disease whose reason for his commitment is not yet known. It deteriorates the cognitive structure and functioning and is characterized by several deficiencies that alter mental and social performance of the individual. The Alzheimer s disease affects neurological functioning, cognitive elements, language, interaction and daily life of individuals affected by the disease. The development of this research aims to investigate how cognitive deficits from Alzheimer s disease alter the use of language in social interaction processes. An integrated study of neurocognitivism and sociocognitivism allows us to understand the language in conjunction with other cognitive elements, and believes that the social use of language has important role in building the knowledge. Three phenomena will be placed for review. The first one investigates the correlation between linguistic and cognitive decline of patients, considering the aspects of neurodegenerative disease, with the social world of the patient, which proven undergoes major changes during the course of the disease, culminating in his/her total isolation in the last phase. Finally, we will perform an analysis of specific linguistic resources used by patients with Alzheimer s and the dynamic interaction of which involved individuals with Alzheimer s. Our results observed in chapter IV (diagnosis, linguistic and cognitive decline and possible ways to categorize patients with Alzheimer s) and in the chapter V (the sociocognitive analysis of ordinations put in use in face to face interaction) revealed that in Alzheimer s disease not only change the internal structures of the individual with brain pathology, but also the language, the cognitive deficits of its constituents, interaction and social practices of everyday individuals.