Language, Dementia and Meaning Making: Navigating Challenges of Cognition and Face in Everyday Life (1st ed. 2019)

By: Heidi E. Hamilton

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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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9783030120214
Related ISBNs:: 9783030120207
Publisher:: Springer International Publishing
Date of Addition:: 05/10/19
Copyrighted By:: Springer
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Psychology, Social Studies, Language Arts, Medicine
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Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.