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

Author:   Heidi E. Hamilton
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   2019 ed.
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9783030120207


Pages:   248
Publication Date:   16 May 2019
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Language, Dementia and Meaning Making: Navigating Challenges of Cognition and Face in Everyday Life


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Author:   Heidi E. Hamilton
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   2019 ed.
Weight:   0.467kg
ISBN:  

9783030120207


ISBN 10:   3030120201
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   16 May 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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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.

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Heidi E. Hamilton is Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University, USA. She is an expert on the interrelationships between language and health care issues. Her previous works on include Conversations with an Alzheimer’s Patient (1994) and Language and Communication in Old Age (1999), The Handbook of Language and Health Communication (2014, edited with Wen-Ying Sylvia Chou) and The Handbook of Discourse Analysis (2015, edited with Deborah Tannen and Deborah Schiffrin).

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