Language, Dementia and Meaning Making: Navigating Challenges of Cognition and Fa

Description: Language, Dementia and Meaning Making by Heidi E. Hamilton 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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. Back Cover 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. 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 this topic include Conversations with an Alzheimers Patient (1994) and Language and Communication in Old Age (1999). Author Biography 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 Alzheimers 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). Table of Contents Chapter 1: Knowing, remembering and performing in everyday life with dementia.- Chapter 2: Struggling to find the right words.- Chapter 3: Forgetting facts about oneself.- Chapter 4: Recalling what just happened.- Chapter 5: Recounting personal experiences from long ago.- Chapter 6: Engaging with physical objects in the here-and-now.- Chapter 7: Performing memory.- Chapter 8: Connections. Feature Highlights the complex connections between the linguistic and cognitive changes that accompany dementia and an individuals sense of self Examines language used by individuals with dementia within a wide range of situations, including audio recordings of conversations, medical visits, and memory loss support groups Approaches dementia as a human issue within multiple linguistic and social contexts Details ISBN3030120236 Author Heidi E. Hamilton Short Title Language, Dementia and Meaning Making Pages 248 Language English Year 2020 ISBN-10 3030120236 ISBN-13 9783030120238 Format Paperback Subtitle Navigating Challenges of Cognition and Face in Everyday Life DEWEY 618.976831 Publication Date 2020-08-14 UK Release Date 2020-08-14 Edition 1st Place of Publication Cham Country of Publication Switzerland Illustrations X, 248 p. Publisher Springer Nature Switzerland AG Edition Description 1st ed. 2019 Imprint Springer Nature Switzerland AG Alternative 9783030120207 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:129546683;

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