Dementia and Language

Part I. Introduction: 1. Interaction research and dementia Peter Muntigl, Danielle Jones and Charlotta Plejert; Part II. Dementia and Diagnostics: 2. Good reasons for non-standardisation in the administration of cognitive assessments Danielle Jones, Clare Jackson and Ray Wilkinson; 3. (Dis)alignment at dementia diagnosis: a window into differing expectations, perceptions and agendas in the memory clinic Jemima Dooley and Rose Mccabe; 4. The role of applied conversation analysis to enhance equity in care for people with dementia from minority ethnic groups Charlotta Plejert; Part III. Dementia and Conversational Strategies: 5. Using 'now what' to discursively compensate for frontotemporal dementia-related challenges: a longitudinal case study Lisa Mikesell; 6. Being sociable: a case study of a man with vascular dementia singing in conversation Roy Foster; 7. On the use of tag questions by co-participants of people with dementia: asymmetries of knowledge, power and interactional competence Jacqueline Kindell, John Keady and Ray Wilkinson; 8. Initiating and pursuing a topical agenda with limited communicative resources Anne Marie Dalby Landmark and Jan Svennevig; Part IV. Dementia and Epistemics: 9. Identifying family members in photographs: practical epistemic and deontic challenges for a person with frontotemporal dementia Peter Muntigl, Gerhard Ransmayr and Stephanie Hödl; 10. 'You know this better': interactional challenges for couples living with dementia when the epistemic status regarding shared past events are uncertain Anna Ekström, Elin Nilsson and Ali Reza Majlesi; 11. Maintaining personhood and authority in everyday talk of a family living with dementia Lindsay Lindley; Part V. Communicative Challenges in Everyday Social Life: 12. Language and cognition in conversations with a person with Alzheimer's disease Danielle Jones; 13. Using digital communication support in interaction involving people with dementia– interactional strategies to facilitate participation and engagement Christina Samuelsson; 14. 'It's more than eating, it's a social situation' – video analysis and professional vision in dementia care Camilla Lindholm and Tuula Tykkyläinen; 15. Social quizzes for people living with dementia: how enactment impacts on interaction Joe Webb.