This review highlights the importance of right hemisphere language functions for successful social communication and advances the hypothesis that the core deficit in psychosis is a failure of segregation of right from left hemisphere functions. Lesion studies of stroke patients and dichotic listening and functional imaging studies of healthy people have shown that some language functions are me...

This paper employs the innovative method of Elicited Metaphor Analysis to present original research in Malaysia into students’ metaphors for ‘language’. We summarize reasons why language and first/ second learning are centrally important education, show patterned features proverbs teacher talk about literacy. These may be one strand student socialization language-literacy conceptions. then repo...

Alzheimer’s disease is accompanied by progressive aphasia which intensifies the cognitive problems. The quality of the care given to the patient influences, however, the evolution of his language difficulties. The way the vulnerable person is aided, and the extent to which his efforts to make himself understood by his human environment are validated, contribute to preventing the development of ...

Determining whether or not a pattern of characters is present within a body of text is such a fundamental problem that it has led to a number of notations for the specification of patterns. These include regular expressions, and notations found within string processing and other application-specific languages. Too often, these approaches are either overly simplistic, offering little in the way ...