International Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
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Department of Psychology, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth,Wales, United Kingdom

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• Research Article   
  Alzheimer's Disease as Defined by Newspapers using Critical Discourse Analysis: How do major UAE Press Present Alzheimer's to the Public?
  Author(s): Aisha Zayed Al-Ali*
  
  Discussing social issues related to Alzheimer's in the local press is an unheeded topic. This paper discusses Alzheimer's topics that have been released to the public through a number of articles introduced based on international topics from the medical, biotechnology and biopharmaceuticals firms, interviews with caregivers, clinicians, physicians, and other dementia issues relayed from biographies and stories of some of the public figures. The aim is to understand how the local press discusses Alzheimer's and presented it to the public in the United Arab Emirates; in this paper, I investigate the language pattern of Alzheimer's topics mentioned in a set of data corpus of 95 articles from five major English newspapers. To achieve this, all searched articles were reviewed, using critical discourse analysis. I surveyed five major newspapers by looking at the co.. View More»
  DOI: 10.35248/2329-9096.22.10.643

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