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The Linguistics of Odessa. : languagehat.com

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"Understanding of Dementia in the Polish Language: A Frame Semantic App" by Maria Maćkowiak, Agnieszka Libura et al.

BACKGROUND: With the increasing incidences of dementia in aging societies, attention should be paid to the social context in which people with dementia live. One of its aspects is language transmitting beliefs, perceptions, and behavioral patterns. An analysis of understanding the diagnostic label of dementia may reveal the role of semantics in the process of social cognition of this disease. OBJECTIVE: The overall aim of this study was to investigate the understanding of the word dementia (otępienie) in the Polish language. METHODS: Frame semantics approach was applied. The structure of semantic information was uncovered with the concept of frame utilizing The National Corpus of Polish (the biggest corpus of contemporary Polish language of 1,500 million words). Additional data was collected from Polish speaking adults in Poland. RESULTS: The analyses allowed to identify the otępienie frame for Polish and verify how its elements are filled in by the general population, indicating the ....

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