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Language, Dementia and Meaning Making: Navigating Challenges of Cognition and Face in Everyday Life - Couverture souple

Hamilton, Heidi E.

 
9783030120238: Language, Dementia and Meaning Making: Navigating Challenges of Cognition and Face in Everyday Life
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ISBN 10 : 3030120236 ISBN 13 : 9783030120238
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

Synopsis

This book investigates the ways in which context shapes how cognitive challenges and strengths are navigated and how these actions impact the self-esteem of individuals with dementia and their conversational partners. The author examines both the language used and face maintenance in everyday social interaction through the lens of epistemic discourse analysis. In doing so, this work reveals how changes in cognition may impact the faces of these individuals, leading some to feel ashamed, anxious, or angry, others to feel patronized, infantilized, or overly dependent, and still others to feel threatened in both ways. It further examines how discursive choices made by healthy interactional partners can minimize or exacerbate these feelings. This path-breaking work will provide important insights for students and scholars of sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, medical anthropology, and health communication.

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À propos de l'auteur

Heidi E. Hamilton is Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University, USA. She is an expert on the interrelationships between language and health care issues. Her previous works on include Conversations with an Alzheimer's Patient (1994) and Language and Communication in Old Age (1999), The Handbook of Language and Health Communication (2014, edited with Wen-Ying Sylvia Chou) and The Handbook of Discourse Analysis (2015, edited with Deborah Tannen and Deborah Schiffrin).

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Éditeur
Palgrave Macmillan
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3030120236
ISBN 13 
9783030120238
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
260
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