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

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 micr...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Place / Publishing House:Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Communication Disorders Across Languages
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Table of 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