Frontotemporal Dementia, Sociality, and Identity: Comparing Adult-child and Caregiver-frontotemporal Dementia Interactions  

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Joaquin, Anna Dina L.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Discourse Studies (Full Text) vol. 12 no. 4 (Aug. 2010), page 443-464.
Topik: adult–child interaction; child directed speech; discourse analysis; frontotemporal dementia
Fulltext: Vol 12, no (4), page 443–464.pdf (758.27KB)

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Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a neurodegenerative disease that affects the prefrontal cortex, and impairs various aspects relevant to social cognition. Such impairments can emerge as a visible phenomenon in social interaction and therefore can have very real consequences for those who interact with the afflicted (Goodwin, 2003). In this article, I examine how attitudes toward FTD patients are indexed through speech features employed by their interlocutors. I focus on three different speech features typically employed by adults and directed towards subordinates or children: directives, let’s/we framed sequences, and initiation-response-evaluation sequences. These forms are used as strategies to affect and guide FTD patient behaviors, and index how FTD patients are socially constructed as ‘child-like’ and in need of assistance and guidance though not necessarily warranted. Thus, FTD patients may be subject to a diminished status as a result of their social impairments.

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