Alzheimer Talk, Text and Context

ANN P. ANAS Research Coordinator, Communication and Aging, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, CanadaCYNTHIA BERNSTEIN Professor of Linguistics, University of Memphis, USAJEUTONNE P. BREWER Associate Professor Emeritus, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USAKERRY BYRNE Doctoral candidate in Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Western Ontario, CanadaNANCY GREEN Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USAHEIDI E. HAMILTON Associate Professor of Linguistics, Georgetown University, USAMARGARET MACLAGAN Associate Professor, Communications Disorders, University of Canterbury, New ZealandPEYTON MASON Head of Linguistic Insights, Inc., USALINDA MOORE Associate Professor of Nursing, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, USAGUENTER M.J. NOLD Professor and Dean at the University of Dortmund, GermanyJ.B. ORANGE Associate Professor in Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Western Ontario, CanadaCHARLENE POPE Assistant Professor, Medical University of South Carolina College of Nursing and College of Health Professions, USADANIELLE RIPICH Dean, College of Health Professions, Medical University of South Carolina, USALISA RUSSELL-PINSON Project Manager of Project MORE, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, USAELLEN BOUCHARD RYAN Professor of Psychiatry and Gerontology at McMaster University, CanadaDENA SHENK Professor of Anthropology and directs the Gerontology Program at University ofNorth Carolina-Charlotte, USAHENDRIKA SPYKERMAN Graduate student in the Sociology Program at McMaster University, Canada

• Acknowledgments Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Some Commonalities PART I: TALK AND TEXT There Was an Old Woman: Maintenance of Identity by People with Alzheimer's Dementia; D.Shenk Evidencing Kitwood's Personhood Strategies: Conversation as Care in Dementia; E.B.Ryan, K.Byrne, H.Spykerman, J.B.Orange Speak To Me, Listen To Me: Ethnic and Gender Variations in Talk and Potential Consequences in Interactions For People With Alzheimer's Disease; C.Pope, D.N.Ripich Talking in The Here And Now: Reference and Politeness in Alzheimer Conversation; B.H.Davis, C.Bernstein Carousel Conversation: Aspects of Family Roles and Topic Shift in Alzheimer's Talk; J.P.Brewer Alzheimer's Speakers and Two Languages; G.M.J.Nold So, You Had Two Sisters, Right? Functions For Discourse Markers in Alzheimer's Talk; B.H.Davis Bad Times and Good Times: Lexical Variation over Time in Robbie Walters' Speech; M.MacLagan, P.Mason PART II: TEXT AND CONTEXT Communication Enhancement with Family Caregivers of Individuals with Alzheimer's Disease; K.Byrne, J.B.Orange Writers with Dementia: The Interplay among Reading, Writing, and Personhood; E.B.Ryan, H.Spykerman, A.P.Anas Simulating Alzheimer's Discourse For Caregiver Training in Artificial Intelligence-based Dialogue Systems; N.Green Understanding Text About Alzheimer's Talk; L.Russell-Pinson, L.Moore Epilogue: The Prism, The Soliloquy, The Couch and The Dance - The Evolving Study of Language and Alzheimer's Disease; H.E.Hamilton Index

'...this collection is a praiseworthy effort at meeting the challenges of research into dementia from a multi-disciplinary perspective...this is a book I would highly recommend for use by both students and researchers. It provides a useful resource that exemplifies how linguistic approaches can be systematically applied to both written texts and conversational data. Even more importantly, it is underpinned by a concern for integrity of the individual and points to strategies that can be used to improve the communication process in dementia.' - Jackie Guendouzi, Journal of Sociolinguistics