Multilingual interaction and dementia / edited by Charlotta Plejert, Camilla Lindholm and Robert W. Schrauf.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Plejert, Charlotta, editor.

Lindholm, Camilla, 1971- editor.

Schrauf, Robert W., editor.

Series:

Communication disorders across languages ; 16.

Communication disorders across languages ; 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multilingualism--Psychological aspects.

Multilingualism.

Communicative disorders in old age.

Dementia.

Older people with disabilities.

Neurolinguistics.

Anthropological linguistics.

Psychological aspects.

Physical Description:

xvii, 244 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bristol ; Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters, [2017]

Summary:

This book brings together international, linguistic research with a focus on interaction in multilingual encounters involving people with dementia in care and healthcare settings. The methodologies used (Conversation Analysis, Ethnography and Discursive Constructionism) capture practices on the micro-level, revealing how very subtle details may be of critical importance for the everyday well-being of participants with dementia, particularly in settings and contexts where there is a lack of a common verbal language of interlocutors, or where language abilities have been lost as a result of dementia. Chapters analyse the practices and actions employed by interlocutors to facilitate mutual understanding, enhance high-quality social relations and assure optimal care and treatment, in spite of language and cognitive difficulties, with an emphasis put on the participants' remaining capacities, and what can be achieved between people with dementia and their interlocutors in a collaborative fashion. This book goes beyond the study of two-party communication to address multiparty and group interactions which are common in residential care and other healthcare settings and will be of interest to professionals and policy makers as well as to medical sciences and linguistics researchers and students. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Multilingual Interaction and Dementia / Charlotta Plejert Plejert, Charlotta, Camilla Lindholm Lindholm, Camilla, Robert W. Schrauf Schrauf, Robert W. 1

2 Ageing as a Swedish-speaking Finn: Positioning and Language Choke at a Nursing Home / Camilla Lindholm Lindholm, Camilla 23

3 'Fear nó Bean, a Man or a Woman?' Bilingual Encounters in Residential Eldercare in Ireland / Nicole Müller Müller, Nicole 52

4 Epistemic Negotiations in Interpreter-mediated Dementia Evaluations: The Cooperative Role of Patients' Relatives / Ali Reza Majlesi Majlesi, Ali Reza, Eleonor Antelius Antelius, Eleonor, Charlotta Plejert Plejert, Charlotta 74

5 Creating Opportunities for Residents to Engage in Social Exchange: Brokering in Multilingual Residential Care Settings / Gunilla Jansson Jansson, Gunilla, Cecilia Wadensjö Wadensjö, Cecilia 103

6 Verbal and Nonverbal Turn-taking Actions of Care Staff and Residents in Linguistically Diverse Long-term Care Settings / Jeff Small Small, Jeff, Sing Mei Chan Chan, Sing Mei, Elisabeth Drance Drance, Elisabeth, Judith Globerman Globerman, Judith, Lorraine Ho Ho, Lorraine, Wendy Hulko Hulko, Wendy, Deborah O'Connor O'Connor, Deborah, JoAnn Perry Perry, JoAnn, Louise Stern Stern, Louise 133

7 Accommodation Practices in Multilingual Encounters in Swedish Residential Care / Maziar Yazdanpanah Yazdanpanah, Maziar, Charlotta Plejert Plejert, Charlotta 148

8 Training in Clinical Assessment: Proxying, Translating and Voice-over as Discursive Devices / Robert W. Schrauf Schrauf, Robert W., Michael Amory Amory, Michael 175

9 Challenges and Experiences in Training Multilingual, International Direct Care Workers in Dementia Care in the United States / Boyd Davis Davis, Boyd, Margaret Maclagan Maclagan, Margaret 206

10 Multilingual Interaction and Dementia: Future Directions for Research and Practice / Charlotta Plejert Plejert, Charlotta, Camilla Lindholm Lindholm, Camilla, Robert W. Schrauf Schrauf, Robert W. 230.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781783097661

1783097663

OCLC:

962383474