The format of the text as an inclusive practice in modern society

Abstract

The article discusses discursive treatment of the texts in the context of inclusive pragmatics of the modern society. The key problem the article is devoted to is the necessity to specify the requirements of creating texts for people with cognitive impairment. The goal of the study is to unify theoretical material of clinical linguistics, logopedics and neurology to understand how the recipients with Alzheimer’s disease (primarily on the stage of predementia and on the early stage of the disease) decode texts and to test to what extent the texts created by social institutions for a wide range of social groups are comprehensible for people with cognitive decline. The empirical material of the article are informational and directive texts located on the information boards and stands of social institutions of Krasnoyarsk in 2021. Linguistic features that complicate the text comprehension are inter alia the use of low-frequency words, polysemes, ambiguous phrases, reversible constructions, inversions. The patients with Alzheimer’s disease and other mental features have difficulties when reading. These difficulties are not taken into consideration when the texts are being created for social groups. The perspectives to provide accessibility of linguistic information for the mentioned group of recipients lie in discursive technology text transformation.