Transivitity Patterns Exhibited by Persons with Dementia in Conversation

Autor/inn/en	Stickle, Trini; Wanner, Anja
Titel	Transivitity Patterns Exhibited by Persons with Dementia in Conversation
Quelle	In: Applied Linguistics, 40 (2019) 1, S.43-63 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-6001
DOI	10.1093/applin/amx001
Schlagwörter	Language Patterns; Applied Linguistics; Syntax; Language Skills; Caregiver Attitudes; Computational Linguistics; Grammar; Accuracy; Clinical Diagnosis; Discourse Analysis; Dementia; Comparative Analysis; Interaction Process Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sprachmodell; Sprachstruktur; Linguistics; Linguistik; Angewandte Linguistik; Language skill; Sprachkompetenz; Computerlinguistik; Grammatik; Diskursanalyse; Demenz; Prozessanalyse
Abstract	We examine the syntactic structures exhibited by persons with dementia in conversation. Traditionally, research on the linguistic abilities of persons with dementia is either observational (reports kept by caregivers) or experimental (e.g. based on comprehension tasks), and the focus is not on the syntactic competence of the speaker. We combine insights from corpus-based syntactic analysis with methods from interactional approaches. Our close syntactic analysis of the talk of 20 persons diagnosed with dementia and their non-impaired co-participants document both grammatical accuracy and the range of linguistic complexity produced as compared to patterns reported in studies of non-impaired speakers. We note the selection of complex grammatical structures (i.e. verbal arguments) is largely a consequence of the interaction rather than evidence of linguistic decrement. We report on the most pertinent of these interactional influences. Our findings support strategies that promote complex linguistic and interactional talk with persons diagnosed with dementia. We believe that these strategies will help increase the interactional opportunities that are lacking as reported by and about persons residing in an assisted living facility (Brooker 2011). (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01