Davis, Boyd H.
Alzheimer Talk, Text and Context
Part I. Talk and Text
1. There was an Old Woman: Maintenance of Identity by People with Alzheimer’s Dementia
Dena Shenk
2. Evidencing Kitwood’s Personhood Strategies: Conversation as Care in Dementia
Ellen Bouchard Ryan, Kerry Byrne, Hendrika Spykerman, J. B. Orange
3. Speak to Me, Listen to Me: Ethnic and Gender Variations in Talk and Potential Consequences in Interactions for People with Alzheimer’s Disease
Charlene Pope, Danielle N. Ripich
4. Talking in the Here and Now: Reference and Politeness in Alzheimer Conversation
Boyd H. Davis, Cynthia Bernstein
5. Carousel Conversation: Aspects of Family Roles and Topic Shift in Alzheimer’s Talk
Jeutonne P. Brewer
6. Alzheimer’s Speakers and Two Languages
Guenter M. J. Nold
7. So, You had Two Sisters, Right? Functions for Discourse Markers in Alzheimer’s Talk
Boyd H. Davis
8. Bad Times and Good Times: Lexical Variation over Time in Robbie Walters’ Speech
Margaret Maclagan, Peyton Mason
Part II. Text and Context
9. Communication Enhancement for Family Caregivers of Individuals with Alzheimer’s Disease
Kerry Byrne, J. B. Orange
10. Writers with Dementia: the Interplay among Reading, Writing, and Personhood
Ellen Bouchard Ryan, Hendrika Spykerman, Ann P. Anas
11. Simulating Alzheimer’s Discourse for Caregiver Training in Artificial Intelligence-based Dialogue Systems
Nancy Green
12. Understanding Text about Alzheimer’s Dementia
Lisa Russell-Pinson, Linda Moore
13. Epilogue: The Prism, the Soliloquy, the Couch, and the Dance — The Evolving Study of Language and Alzheimer’s Disease
Heidi E. Hamilton
Keywords: Social Sciences, Social Work, Speech Pathology, Linguistics, general, Psycholinguistics, Aging, Language and Literature
- Editor
- Davis, Boyd H.
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2005
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 275 pages
- Category
- Society
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230502024
- Printed ISBN
- 978-0-230-20694-6