Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow
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Cognitive linguistics (CL) refers to the school of linguistics that understands language creation, learning, and usage as best explained by reference to human cognition in general. With increase in age human cognition improves, which can be measured through tasks based on cognitive-linguistics. The tasks include attention and concentration, orientation, memory, organization etc. But these skills reduce their efficiency with advanced age. That is, younger population perform better as compared to older. And a disorder of elderly called dementia is a debilitating condition causing progressive deterioration in cognition, personality and communication skills. If healthy elderly perform less efficient in cognitive linguistic skills, then disordered population will perform still. Hence there is an immediate need to study the cognitive-linguistic performance in healthy elderly as compared to dementia. The aim of the present study is to qualify the cognitive-linguistic performance in persons with dementia as compared to healthy elderly. Considered for the study were 20 (10 monolingual and 10 bilingual) healthy elderly and age matched persons with dementia. Monolingual persons had Kannada as their mother tongue/ first language and bilinguals had English as their second language. Cognitive linguistic Assessment Protocol (CLAP) (Kamath, 2001, Rajasudhakar, 2005) was administered for both the groups. The performance of healthy elderly as against to dementia is been discussed along with the performance of monolinguals versus bilinguals.
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