Discourse analysis in dementia

Question 1

What are the two methods used in DA?

Answer 1

• interactional sociolinguistics
• systemic functional linguistics

Question 2

Describe Hamilton (1994) study

Answer 2

• interactional sociolinguistics
• interactions between the researcher and a woman with DAT
• longitudinal (4yr)
• Analysis primarily of questions and responses, and their change over time

Question 3

What were the different stages Hamilton (1994) identified?

Answer 3

1 - active, confused aware
2 - active, confused, unaware
3 - less active, confused, unaware
4 - passive

Question 4

Describe stage 1 (Hamilton, 1994)

Answer 4

• WFD but can often circumlocute
• active in convo
• when innapropriate response, more often vague and seems aware
• has positive politeness strategies

Question 5

Describe stage 2 (Hamilton, 1994)

Answer 5

• less active in asking qs
• increasingly unaware of diffs
• no longer producing circumlocutions
• still asking wh- and yes/no qs
• responses now more innappropriate
• shows positive politeness

Question 6

Describe stage 3 (Hamilton, 1994)

Answer 6

• participation in convos markedly reduced
• qs refer to present
• more ‘no response’
• perserverations and repeats
• sometimes repair
• no positive politeness

Question 7

Describe stage 4 (Hamilton, 1994)

Answer 7

• no lexical items
• sometimes responses ‘appropriate’, often no response or q-type mismatch
• takes turns
• requests repitition

Question 8

What were the findings of Ellis et al (2016)?

Answer 8

• used systemic functional linguistics
• global coherence worse in DAT, FTS, and VD than typicals

Question 9

What were the findings of Glosser and Deser (1990)?

Answer 9

• used systemic functional linguistics
• DAT sig less coherent than typicals
• global worse than local coherence

Question 10

Describe Muller and Wilson’s study (2008)

Answer 10

• examined coherence in man with dementia in convo with researcher
• issues with referential cohesion
• gender errors
• vague or ambiguous references