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Communicative Coping and Friendship Among Persons Living With Dementia: Findings From Long-Term Care
The study of identity is central to many disciplines, however there is a special link that connects language and discourse to identities. The way people speak reveals a lot about who they are. Through discourse and communication individuals convey and negotiate their sense of self (de Fina, 2020). R...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8679548/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.1386 |
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description | The study of identity is central to many disciplines, however there is a special link that connects language and discourse to identities. The way people speak reveals a lot about who they are. Through discourse and communication individuals convey and negotiate their sense of self (de Fina, 2020). Regardless of cognitive status, persons living with dementia (PLWD) use language to construct for themselves a social identity of being included in friendship networks (de Medeiros et al., 2011). This paper uses data from the Friendship Study to examine the use of such communicative coping behavior (CCB) for friendship formation. Ethnographic observations of PLWD were conducted in a Long-Term Care residential setting. Sociolinguistic discourse analysis of verbatim transcripts with reference to the CCB Checklist (Saunders et al., 2016) reveal evidence of CCB use. Results suggest that different types of CCBs were used to construct identity and negotiate friendship challenges in different contexts. |
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spelling | pubmed-86795482021-12-17 Communicative Coping and Friendship Among Persons Living With Dementia: Findings From Long-Term Care Saunders, Pamela Innov Aging Abstracts The study of identity is central to many disciplines, however there is a special link that connects language and discourse to identities. The way people speak reveals a lot about who they are. Through discourse and communication individuals convey and negotiate their sense of self (de Fina, 2020). Regardless of cognitive status, persons living with dementia (PLWD) use language to construct for themselves a social identity of being included in friendship networks (de Medeiros et al., 2011). This paper uses data from the Friendship Study to examine the use of such communicative coping behavior (CCB) for friendship formation. Ethnographic observations of PLWD were conducted in a Long-Term Care residential setting. Sociolinguistic discourse analysis of verbatim transcripts with reference to the CCB Checklist (Saunders et al., 2016) reveal evidence of CCB use. Results suggest that different types of CCBs were used to construct identity and negotiate friendship challenges in different contexts. Oxford University Press 2021-12-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8679548/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.1386 Text en © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Abstracts Saunders, Pamela Communicative Coping and Friendship Among Persons Living With Dementia: Findings From Long-Term Care |
title | Communicative Coping and Friendship Among Persons Living With Dementia: Findings From Long-Term Care |
title_full | Communicative Coping and Friendship Among Persons Living With Dementia: Findings From Long-Term Care |
title_fullStr | Communicative Coping and Friendship Among Persons Living With Dementia: Findings From Long-Term Care |
title_full_unstemmed | Communicative Coping and Friendship Among Persons Living With Dementia: Findings From Long-Term Care |
title_short | Communicative Coping and Friendship Among Persons Living With Dementia: Findings From Long-Term Care |
title_sort | communicative coping and friendship among persons living with dementia: findings from long-term care |
topic | Abstracts |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8679548/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.1386 |
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