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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lindholm, Camilla, Editor.

Plejert, Charlotta, Editor.

Schrauf, Robert W., Editor.

Series:

Communication disorders across languages ; 16.

Communication Disorders Across Languages

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dementia.

Communicative disorders in old age.

Multilingualism--Psychological aspects.

Multilingualism.

Neurolinguistics.

Anthropological linguistics.

Older people with disabilities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (259 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Contributors

Acknowledgements

1. Multilingual Interaction and Dementia

2. Ageing as a Swedish-speaking Finn: Positioning and Language Choice at a Nursing Home

3. ‘Fear nó Bean, a Man or a Woman?’ Bilingual Encounters in Residential Eldercare in Ireland

4. Epistemic Negotiations in Interpreter-mediated Dementia Evaluations: The Cooperative Role of Patients’ Relatives

5. Creating Opportunities for Residents to Engage in Social Exchange: Brokering in Multilingual Residential Care Settings

6. Verbal and Nonverbal Turn-taking Actions of Care Staff and Residents in Linguistically Diverse Long-term Care Settings

7. Accommodation Practices in Multilingual Encounters in Swedish Residential Care

8. Training in Clinical Assessment: Proxying, Translating and Voice-over as Discursive Devices

9. Challenges and Experiences in Training Multilingual, International Direct Care Workers in Dementia Care in the United States

10. Multilingual Interaction and Dementia: Future Directions for Research and Practice

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9781783097685

178309768X

OCLC:

981764869