Language, Dementia and Meaning Making Navigating Challenges of Cogni
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
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Navigating Challenges of Cognition and Face in Everyday Life
Heidi E. Hamilton
Language, Dementia and Meaning Making “This book offers the most complex and up-to-date understanding of the social nature of human cognition. Hamilton takes us on a journey—at once personal and yet at once universal—from her first book on dementia and conversations to the present one on understanding memory as dynamic, evolving, fluid and fully sociolinguistic. This is a very necessary read for all scholars researching issues of memory, language and sociocognition.” —Vaidehi Ramanathan, Professor of Linguistics, University of California, USA “Memory and cognition are fluid, slippery, contingent and tied into each other, like the conversations that depend upon them and upon the good will of the participants. In a deeply-researched discussion as remarkable for its clarity as for its emphasis on empathetic interaction, Hamilton asks these questions not only for us but also for our partners with dementia: How is it that we can say we know – and how do we use those memories we can access – to recognize and share our knowing in our efforts to make meaning when we are talking to another person? How do those efforts to make meaning help or hinder speakers with and without dementia in retaining self-worth, a positive self-image, a “face?” Hamilton draws on a lifetime of thought and research to involve readers with “the complexity of meaning making”, whether the speaker is looking for a word, performing fragments of a song, recalling immediate events, or reconstituting previous aspects of ones’ life.” —Boyd H. Davis, Bonnie E. Cone Professor of Teaching in Applied Linguistics/English and Professor of Gerontology at University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA
Heidi E. Hamilton
Language, Dementia and Meaning Making Navigating Challenges of Cognition and Face in Everyday Life
Heidi E. Hamilton Department of Linguistics Georgetown University Washington, DC, USA
ISBN 978-3-030-12020-7 ISBN 978-3-030-12021-4 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12021-4 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neithe
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