Language, Dementia and Meaning Making Navigating Challenges of Cognition and Face in Everyday Life /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hamilton, Heidi E. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: e-Book
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Subjects:
Applied linguistics.
Sociolinguistics.
Linguistics > Methodology.
Medical anthropology.
Social medicine.
Clinical health psychology.
Applied Linguistics.
Research Methods in Language and Linguistics.
Medical Anthropology.
Medical Sociology.
Health Psychology.
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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.

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