Multilingual Interaction and Dementia

This book addresses multilingual interaction in ethnoculturally diverse care and healthcare encounters involving people with dementia. It analyses the practices and actions used by interlocutors to facilitate mutual understanding, enhance social relations and assure optimal care and treatment, in spite of language and cognitive difficulties.

About the author

Charlotta Plejert is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the Department of Culture and Communication, and a researcher at Center for Dementia Research (CEDER) at Linköping University, Sweden. Her research interests include Conversation Analysis, communicative disabilities in children and adults, and second language interaction and acquisition.
Camilla Lindholm is Acting Professor at the Department of Finnish Language, Finno-Ugrian and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Helsinki. Her main research areas are interaction in institutional settings, and asymmetric interaction involving participants with communication impairment.
Robert W. Schrauf is Professor and Head of the Department of Applied Linguistics at the Pennsylvania State University. He conducts empirical research on language, ethnicity and Alzheimer's disease, and methodological research on the use of mixed methods for making cross-cultural comparisons.

Summary

This book addresses multilingual interaction in ethnoculturally diverse care and healthcare encounters involving people with dementia. It analyses the practices and actions used by interlocutors to facilitate mutual understanding, enhance social relations and assure optimal care and treatment, in spite of language and cognitive difficulties.

Product details

• Authors: Charlotta Plejert
• Assisted by: Camilla Lindholm (Editor), Charlotta Plejert (Editor), Robert W Schrauf (Editor), Robert W. Schrauf (Editor)
• Publisher: Channel View Publications
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2017
• EAN: 9781783097661
• ISBN: 978-1-78309-766-1
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 239 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 658 g
• Series: Communication Disorders Across Languages; Communication Disorders Across; Communication Disorders Across; Communication Disorders Across Languages
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries