Alzheimer talk, text, and context : enhancing communication / edited by Boyd H. Davis.

Contributor(s):

Davis, Boyd H [editor]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005Description: xxi, 254 pages ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

1403935327 (cloth)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

616.831 22 A

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Contents:

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 ...[et al.] -- 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 Dementia / 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.

Summary: "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 and 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." --Book Jacket

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 ...[et al.] --
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 Dementia / 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.

"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 and 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." --Book Jacket

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