Alzheimer Talk, Text and Context

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