Rasmussen2020

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Rasmussen2020
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key Rasmussen2020
Author(s) Gitte Rasmussen
Title Singing as a Resource in Conversations Involving Persons with Dementia
Editor(s) Ray Wilkinson, John Rae, Gitte Rasmussen
Tag(s) EMCA, Dementia, Singing, Danish
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Year 2020
Language English
City Cham
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Pages 161-193
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DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-28799-3_6
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Book title Atypical Interaction: The Impact of Communicative Impairments within Everyday Talk
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Abstract

While dementia may affect language and communicative functioning and influence the organization of talk in interaction as conversationalists orient to the effects, activities of singing seem to be altered in less significant ways. This paper describes a single case study of how a 90-year-old Danish woman who is diagnosed with dementia at a severe stage breaks into song while having a conversation with a visiting researcher. Employing Conversation Analytic (CA) methods, the paper substantiates and elaborates on the work by Jefferson (in Text and Performance Quarterly, 16(1):1–61, 1996) and Schegloff (in Texas Linguistic Forum, 48: 17–30, 2005) on how singing, humming and being poetic may occur by association while being responsive to the social and interactional environments. The paper shows that breaking into song may also be a relevant response to talk in interaction that involves participants diagnosed with dementia.

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