Robert W. (Hrsg.) Schrauf

Dialogue and Dementia

Cognitive and Communicative Resources for Engagement

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This volume takes the positive view that conversation between persons with dementia and their interlocutors is a privileged site for ongoing cognitive engagement. The book aims to identify and describe specific linguistic devices or strategies at the level of turn-by-turn talk that promote and extend conversation, and to explore real-world engagements that reflect these strategies.Final reflections tie these linguistic strategies and practices to wider issues of the self and agency in persons with dementia. Thematically, the volume fosters an integrated perspective on communication and cognition in terms of which communicative resources are r… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Müller, Nicole (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-317-91661-1
EAN: 9781317916611
Produktnummer: 16964742
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 304 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 3'542 KB
Abbildungen: 4 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 4 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen, 17 schwarz-weiße Tabellen

Über den Autor

Robert W. Schrauf is professor and head of the Department of Applied Linguistics at the Pennsylvania State University. He conducts both qualitative and quantitative research in cross-cultural gerontology, narrative gerontology, Alzheimer's disease, experimental and longitudinal approaches to multilingualism, and bilingual autobiographical memory. He is former president of the Association for Anthropology and Gerontology, a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America, and member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology and Cross-Cultural Research.Nicole Müller is a professor of Communicative Disorders at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where she holds a Doris B. Hawthorne/BoRSF Endowed Professorship. Her areas of research interest include clinical linguistics, clinical discourse studies and pragmatics, age-related disorders of communication and cognition, multilingualism, and systemic functional linguistics. She is co-editor of the journal Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics and of the book series Communication Disorders across Languages.