Alzheimer Talk, Text and Context: Enhancing Communication
Boyd H. Davis
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Description for Alzheimer Talk, Text and Context: Enhancing Communication
Paperback. Presents an analysis of conversation, discourse and written text about Alzheimer's speech examining retained language competencies that could be the basis for intervention or for enhancing communication. This book shows concern towards Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia. Editor(s): Davis, Boyd H. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: MJND; MJX; MMZL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 360.
The contributors to this volume reference a shared, longitudinal corpus of spontaneous conversation elicited in natural settings from speakers with moderate to late moderate Alzheimer's Disease, utilizing other collections as appropriate, to analyze conversation, discourse and written text by and about Alzheimer's speech. Cross-disciplinary contributions from the USA, Canada, New Zealand and Germany, representing linguistics, gerontology, geriatric nursing, computer science, and communications disorders report on empirically-based investigations of social and pragmatic language competencies and strategies retained by AD patients which could ground communication enhancements or interventions.
The contributors to this volume reference a shared, longitudinal corpus of spontaneous conversation elicited in natural settings from speakers with moderate to late moderate Alzheimer's Disease, utilizing other collections as appropriate, to analyze conversation, discourse and written text by and about Alzheimer's speech. Cross-disciplinary contributions from the USA, Canada, New Zealand and Germany, representing linguistics, gerontology, geriatric nursing, computer science, and communications disorders report on empirically-based investigations of social and pragmatic language competencies and strategies retained by AD patients which could ground communication enhancements or interventions.
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
275
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Weight
360g
Number of Pages
254
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230206946
SKU
V9780230206946
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99-15
About Boyd H. Davis
ANN P. ANAS Research Coordinator, Communication and Aging, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada CYNTHIA BERNSTEIN Professor of Linguistics, University of Memphis, USA JEUTONNE P. BREWER Associate Professor Emeritus, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA KERRY BYRNE Doctoral candidate in Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Western Ontario, Canada NANCY GREEN Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, ... Read more
Reviews for Alzheimer Talk, Text and Context: Enhancing Communication
'...this collection is a praiseworthy effort at meeting the challenges of research into dementia from a multi-disciplinary perspective...this is a book I would highly recommend for use by both students and researchers. It provides a useful resource that exemplifies how linguistic approaches can be systematically applied to both written texts and conversational data. Even more importantly, it is underpinned by ... Read more