Dialogue and Dementia: Cognitive and Communicative Resources for Engagement by Schrauf, Robert W.

Dialogue and Dementia: Cognitive and Communicative Resources for Engagement (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781848726628)

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Dialogue and Dementia: Cognitive and Communicative Resources for Engagement by Schrauf, Robert W.

Dialogue and Dementia: Cognitive and Communicative Resources for Engagement

$89.99
Dialogue and Dementia: Cognitive and Communicative Resources for Engagement by Schrauf, Robert W.

Dialogue and Dementia: Cognitive and Communicative Resources for Engagement

$89.99
Format: Paperback
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This volume takes the positive view that conversation between persons with dementia and their interlocutors is a privileged site for ongoing cognitive engagement. The book aims to identify and describe specific linguistic devices or strategies at the level of turn-by-turn talk that promote and extend conversation, and to explore real-world engagements that reflect these strategies.

Final reflections tie these linguistic strategies and practices to wider issues of the "self" and "agency" in persons with dementia. Thematically, the volume fosters an integrated perspective on communication and cognition in terms of which communicative resources are recognized as cognitive resources, and communicative interaction is treated as reflecting cognitive engagement. This reflects perspectives in cognitive anthropology and cognitive science that regard human cognitive activity as distributed and culturally rooted.

This volume is intended for academic researchers and advanced students in applied linguistics, linguistic and medical anthropology, nursing, and social gerontology; and practice professionals in speech-language pathology and geropsychology.



Author: Robert W. Schrauf
ISBN-10: 1848726627
ISBN-13: 9781848726628
Publisher: Psychology Press
Language: English
Published: 12/03/2013
Pages: 292
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d
By Robert W. Schrauf
By Robert W. Schrauf
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Robert W. Schrauf is professor and head of the Department of Applied Linguistics at the Pennsylvania State University. He conducts both qualitative and quantitative research in cross-cultural gerontology, narrative gerontology, Alzheimer's disease, experimental and longitudinal approaches to multilingualism, and bilingual autobiographical memory. He is former president of the Association for Anthropology and Gerontology, a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America, and member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology and Cross-Cultural Research.

Nicole Müller is a professor of Communicative Disorders at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where she holds a Doris B. Hawthorne/BoRSF Endowed Professorship. Her areas of research interest include clinical linguistics, clinical discourse studies and pragmatics, age-related disorders of communication and cognition, multilingualism, and systemic functional linguistics. She is co-editor of the journal Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics and of the book series Communication Disorders across Languages.

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