title: Collaborative role construction in a conversation with dementia: an application of systemic functional linguistics.
abstract: This study applies the tools provided by Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) to the description of patterns in a conversation between a person with dementia and a person without. It shows how, in the presence of, on the one hand, considerable communicative and cognitive deficits, and on the other, a collaborative interlocutor, a person with dementia succeeds in leading and sustaining a lengthy conversation, and of constructing for himself a positive role in the interaction, namely that of the elder advising a much younger man.
authors.affiliation: Department of Communicative Disorders, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA 70508, USA. nmueller@louisiana.edu
authors.forename: Nicole
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Müller
authors.forename: Brent T
authors.initials: BT
authors.lastname: Wilson
mesh_terms: D002755:Choice Behavior; D003142:Communication; D003704:Dementia / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008037:Linguistics; D008297:Male; D013060:Speech