Language, Dementia and Meaning Making Navigating Challenges of Cognition and Face in Everyday Life /

• Main Author: Hamilton, Heidi E. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Applied linguistics.; Sociolinguistics.; Discourse analysis.; Medical anthropology.; Social medicine.; Health psychology.; Applied Linguistics.; Discourse Analysis.; Medical Anthropology.; Medical Sociology.; Health Psychology.

This book investigates the ways in which context shapes how cognitive challenges and strengths are navigated and how these actions impact the self-esteem of individuals with dementia and their conversational partners. The author examines both the language used and face maintenance in everyday social...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Knowing, remembering and performing in everyday life with dementia
• Chapter 2: Struggling to find the right words
• Chapter 3: Forgetting facts about oneself
• Chapter 4: Recalling what just happened
• Chapter 5: Recounting personal experiences from long ago
• Chapter 6: Engaging with physical objects in the here-and-now
• Chapter 7: Performing memory
• Chapter 8: Connections.