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Parkinson’s Disease and Politeness
| Content Provider | PubMed Central |
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| Author | Thomas, Holtgraves Mcnamara, Patrick |
| Copyright Year | 2010 |
| Abstract | Prior research suggests that people with Parkinson’s disease (PD) display certain deficiencies in their use of language. In this research, the authors used a role-playing technique to examine their ability to say things politely and to vary their level of politeness as a function of the social context. PD participants, relative to control participants, produced less polite strategies and failed to vary their politeness as a function of the size of the request. In addition, PD participants who were on high-dosage levels, relative to control and low-dosage PD participants, did not vary their politeness as a function of the recipient’s power. Overall, this research demonstrates a deficit in politeness for people with PD, a deficit that most likely plays a role in some of the social deficits that have been demonstrated to occur for people with PD. Potential neurobiological mechanisms of this deficit are discussed. |
| Related Links | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0261927x09359521 |
| Ending Page | 193 |
| Page Count | 16 |
| Starting Page | 178 |
| File Format | |
| ISSN | 0261927X |
| e-ISSN | 15526526 |
| Journal | Journal of language and social psychology |
| Issue Number | 2 |
| Volume Number | 29 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2010-06-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Linguistics and Language Sociology and Political Science Education Social Psychology Anthropology Research in Higher Education |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Sociology and Political Science Education Anthropology Social Psychology Linguistics and Language |
