This collection augments clinical inventories of Alzheimer's discourse with an emphasis on how caregivers and researchers can focus on communication enhancement and person-centered care. Specialists from linguistics, speech and communications disorders, gerontology, nursing, and artificial intelligence analyze retained competencies for social and linguistic interaction by speakers with Alzheimer's Disease, keyed to a corpus of naturally-occurring conversation, collected over several years. The contributors examine discourse boundaries and social relationships, gender-cued interaction and life-course analysis, online text by and about Alzheimer's speech, ways Alzheimer's speakers co-construct stories, in more than one language, with caregivers and conversation partners. They explore ways we might help Alzheimer's speakers - and ourselves - communicate better by knowing more about some of the ways they can continue to display their communicative skills, and by designing innovative enhancements and interventions.
'...this collection is a praiseworthy effort at meeting the challenges of research into dementia from a multi-disciplinary perspective...this is a book I would highly recommend for use by both students and researchers. It provides a useful resource that exemplifies how linguistic approaches can be systematically applied to both written texts and conversational data. Even more importantly, it is underpinned by a concern for integrity of the individual and points to strategies that can be used to improve the communication process in dementia.' - Jackie Guendouzi, Journal of Sociolinguistics
Acknowledgments
Notes on the Contributors
Introduction: Some Commonalities
PART I: TALK AND TEXT
There Was an Old Woman: Maintenance of Identity by People with Alzheimer's Dementia; D.Shenk
Evidencing Kitwood's Personhood Strategies: Conversation as Care in Dementia; E.B.Ryan, K.Byrne, H.Spykerman & J.B.Orange
Speak To Me, Listen To Me: Ethnic and Gender Variations in Talk and Potential Consequences in Interactions For People With Alzheimer's Disease; C.Pope & D.N.Ripich
Talking in The Here And Now: Reference and Politeness in Alzheimer Conversation; B.H.Davis & C.Bernstein
Carousel Conversation: Aspects of Family Roles and Topic Shift in Alzheimer's Talk; J.P.Brewer
Alzheimer's Speakers and Two Languages; G.M.J.Nold
So, You Had Two Sisters, Right? Functions For Discourse Markers in Alzheimer's Talk; B.H.Davis
Bad Times and Good Times: Lexical Variation over Time in Robbie Walters' Speech; M.MacLagan & P.Mason
PART II: TEXT AND CONTEXT
Communication Enhancement with Family Caregivers of Individuals with Alzheimer's Disease; K.Byrne & J.B.Orange
Writers with Dementia: The Interplay among Reading, Writing, and Personhood; E.B.Ryan, H.Spykerman & A.P.Anas
Simulating Alzheimer's Discourse For Caregiver Training in Artificial Intelligence-based Dialogue Systems; N.Green
Understanding Text About Alzheimer's Talk; L.Russell-Pinson & L.Moore
Epilogue: The Prism, The Soliloquy, The Couch and The Dance - The Evolving Study of Language and Alzheimer's Disease; H.E.Hamilton
Index
BOYD H. DAVIS is Bonnie E. Cone Distinguished Professor for Teaching, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA. She teaches and researches in historical and comparative linguistics, with a focus on social and discourse context.
Description
This collection augments clinical inventories of Alzheimer's discourse with an emphasis on how caregivers and researchers can focus on communication enhancement and person-centered care. Specialists from linguistics, speech and communications disorders, gerontology, nursing, and artificial intelligence analyze retained competencies for social and linguistic interaction by speakers with Alzheimer's Disease, keyed to a corpus of naturally-occurring conversation, collected over several years. The contributors examine discourse boundaries and social relationships, gender-cued interaction and life-course analysis, online text by and about Alzheimer's speech, ways Alzheimer's speakers co-construct stories, in more than one language, with caregivers and conversation partners. They explore ways we might help Alzheimer's speakers - and ourselves - communicate better by knowing more about some of the ways they can continue to display their communicative skills, and by designing innovative enhancements and interventions.
Reviews
'...this collection is a praiseworthy effort at meeting the challenges of research into dementia from a multi-disciplinary perspective...this is a book I would highly recommend for use by both students and researchers. It provides a useful resource that exemplifies how linguistic approaches can be systematically applied to both written texts and conversational data. Even more importantly, it is underpinned by a concern for integrity of the individual and points to strategies that can be used to improve the communication process in dementia.' - Jackie Guendouzi, Journal of Sociolinguistics
Contents
Acknowledgments
Notes on the Contributors
Introduction: Some Commonalities
PART I: TALK AND TEXT
There Was an Old Woman: Maintenance of Identity by People with Alzheimer's Dementia; D.Shenk
Evidencing Kitwood's Personhood Strategies: Conversation as Care in Dementia; E.B.Ryan, K.Byrne, H.Spykerman & J.B.Orange
Speak To Me, Listen To Me: Ethnic and Gender Variations in Talk and Potential Consequences in Interactions For People With Alzheimer's Disease; C.Pope & D.N.Ripich
Talking in The Here And Now: Reference and Politeness in Alzheimer Conversation; B.H.Davis & C.Bernstein
Carousel Conversation: Aspects of Family Roles and Topic Shift in Alzheimer's Talk; J.P.Brewer
Alzheimer's Speakers and Two Languages; G.M.J.Nold
So, You Had Two Sisters, Right? Functions For Discourse Markers in Alzheimer's Talk; B.H.Davis
Bad Times and Good Times: Lexical Variation over Time in Robbie Walters' Speech; M.MacLagan & P.Mason
PART II: TEXT AND CONTEXT
Communication Enhancement with Family Caregivers of Individuals with Alzheimer's Disease; K.Byrne & J.B.Orange
Writers with Dementia: The Interplay among Reading, Writing, and Personhood; E.B.Ryan, H.Spykerman & A.P.Anas
Simulating Alzheimer's Discourse For Caregiver Training in Artificial Intelligence-based Dialogue Systems; N.Green
Understanding Text About Alzheimer's Talk; L.Russell-Pinson & L.Moore
Epilogue: The Prism, The Soliloquy, The Couch and The Dance - The Evolving Study of Language and Alzheimer's Disease; H.E.Hamilton
Index
Authors
BOYD H. DAVIS is Bonnie E. Cone Distinguished Professor for Teaching, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA. She teaches and researches in historical and comparative linguistics, with a focus on social and discourse context.
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