About the Author

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Louise Cummings is Professor in the Department of English ​and Communication and Associate Dean for Research in the Faculty of Humanities at ​The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She teaches and conducts research in pragmatics​, clinical linguistics ​and public health. Publications in these areas include ​Language and Dementia (Cambridge University Press, 2020), Fallacies in Medicine and Health (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), ​Reasoning and Public Health (Springer, 2015), and Pragmatic Disorders (Springer, 2014).