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“Why don't they talk to our daughter?”: Eye-tracking AAC and medical communication in Rett syndrome “他们为什么不和我们的女儿谈谈?”: Rett综合征的眼动追踪AAC和医学交流

Language and Health Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.laheal.2023.06.002

Usree Bhattacharya , Wisnu A. Pradana , Xing Wei , Bukunmi Ogunsola

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Pragmatic impairment and multimodal compensation in older adults with dementia 老年痴呆患者的语用障碍和多模态补偿

Language and Health Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.laheal.2023.06.004

Lihe Huang, Yiran Che

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Promoting language and health studies for a better society 促进语言和健康研究，建设更美好的社会

Language and Health Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.laheal.2023.07.003

Wen Ma , Louise Cummings

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Long COVID: The impact on language and cognition 长冠肺炎:对语言和认知的影响

Language and Health Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.laheal.2023.05.001

Louise Cummings

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Metaphorical and multimodal representation of autism in Chinese video public service announcements: Lonely twinkling 中文视频公益广告中自闭症的隐喻与多模态表现:孤独的闪烁

Language and Health Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.laheal.2023.06.006

Molly Xie Pan

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Skin cancer risk assessment and the grammaticalization of the future: The role of epistemic modality when temporally framing health information 皮肤癌风险评估和未来的语法化:认知方式在临时构建健康信息时的作用

Language and Health Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.laheal.2023.07.001

Tiziana Jäggi , Sayaka Sato , Pascal M. Gygax

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The changing landscape of healthcare communication in Italy: Perceptions and challenges in language brokering services 意大利医疗保健沟通的变化景观:语言中介服务的感知和挑战

Language and Health Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.laheal.2023.07.002

Jekaterina Nikitina , Giulia Montenovo

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