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Author Hamilton, Heidi Ehernberger.

Title Conversations with an Alzheimer's patient : an interactional sociolinguistic study / Heidi Ehernberger Hamilton
Published Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1994

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 MELB  618.976831 Ham/Cwa  AVAILABLE
Description Electronic book
xii, 184 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Cambridge books online
Contents Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Communicative profile of Elsie -- 3. Questions -- 4. Responses -- 5. Conclusions and implications -- References -- Index
Summary The language of open-ended, naturally occurring conversations between the patient and the author, over four-and-one-half years, is investigated not only in an attempt to understand how the patient's communicative abilities and disabilities are related to each other and how they change over time, but, importantly, how they are influenced by both preemptive and reactive communicative behaviors on the part of the patient's healthy interlocutor. This "personal and particular" study of conversations with one Alzheimer's patient is offered as a humanistic approach to language loss. It is one in which communicative breakdowns are analyzed, not separately from details about the patient, her conversational partners, and the setting, nor from relevant social facts which may influence interactions; that is, one in which language disability is seen as a human problem within multiple linguistic and social contexts
Alzheimer's disease is a degenerative brain disease which has major social consequences for the individuals affected and for those who are emotionally and/or physically close to them. The role which language plays in such relationships stands at the center of this book. In contrast to traditional analyses carried out by psycholinguists, neurolinguists and speech pathologists, with speech samples elicited in clinical settings, Heidi Ehernberger Hamilton examines language in the life of one elderly female Alzheimer's patient from an interactional sociolinguistic perspective
Analysis Alzheimer's disease
Notes Available through Cambridge books online SHEDL trial from 9th January 2012 to 9th July 2012
Title from publishers bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Dec 2011)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-182) and index
Subject Alzheimer's disease -- Patients -- Language -- Case studies.
Language attrition -- Case studies.
Sociolinguistics -- Case studies.
Alzheimer Disease.
Aged.
Language Disorders.
Verbal Behavior.
Alzheimer Disease.
Language Disorders.
Verbal Behavior.
Genre/Form Case Reports.
LC no. 93001373
ISBN 0521421012 (hardback)