Learning from the Talk of Persons with Dementia: A Practical Guide to Interaction and Interactional Research

Front Matter ....Pages i-xix
 Introduction  (Trini Stickle)....Pages 1-12
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 Dementia, Etiologies, and Implications on Communication  (Cary J. Kohlenberg, Nathaniel J. Kohlenberg)....Pages 15-30
 Challenges in Collecting Real-World Dementia Discourse  (Boyd H. Davis, Charlene Pope)....Pages 31-46
 Why Use Interactional Data to Better Understand the Effects of Dementia?  (Nicole Müller)....Pages 47-60
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 Signposts, Guideposts, and Stalls: Pragmatic and Discourse Markers in Dementia Discourse  (Boyd H. Davis, Margaret Maclagan)....Pages 63-83
 Making Sense of Syntactic Error in Conversations Between Persons with Dementia and Their Non-impaired Co-participants  (Trini Stickle, Anja Wanner)....Pages 85-109
 Foregrounding Competence in Interaction with a Person with Dementia: Co-participant Responses to Disordered Talk  (Lyndsay Lindley)....Pages 111-134
 Meaningfulness at the Intersection of Knowledge and Environmental Objects: Investigating Interactions in Art Galleries and Residences Involving Persons with Dementia and Their Carers  (Adrienne R. Isaac, Heidi E. Hamilton)....Pages 135-163
 Disagreements in Assessment Sequences with Persons Diagnosed with Frontotemporal Dementia  (Michael Sean Smith)....Pages 165-184
 Dementia and the Life Course: Examining Cognitive Decline in a Slowly Progressing Degenerative Illness  (Michael Halpin, Norann Richard)....Pages 185-208
 Public and Private Spaces in Residential Care for Older People  (Gunilla Jansson)....Pages 209-240
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 Conclusion: Keeping the Conversation Going  (Trini Stickle)....Pages 243-247
Back Matter ....Pages 249-255