Repetitional responses in frontotemporal dementia discourse

Asserting agency or demonstrating confusion

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ID7750770
AuthorsL Mikesell (0000-0001-6410-2805, University of California, Los Angeles, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume12
Issue4
Pages465-500
Publication date2010-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDiscourse Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1461-4456 • E-ISSN: 1461-7080
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1461445610370127
OpenAlexW1983249197
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited30

Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a young-onset neurodegenerative dementia that primarily affects social behaviors. This paper examines the use of repetitional responses in FTD discourse, finding that patients often use repeats to assert agency or epistemic authority (i.e. to claim rights to knowledge). For example, repetitional responses are often used by patients to exert some autonomy when their interlocutors display a belief about the patients’ lack of knowledge about basic functioning. FTD has been associated with echolalia, the meaningless use of repetition; however, this analysis shows that the use of repetitional responses in FTD discourse can be meaningful and thus suggests that, at least in early stages of the dementia, echolalia is not always an accurate characterization of FTD patients’ use of repetitional responses

Aphasia · Autonomy · Cognitive psychology · Confusion · Conversation · Conversation analysis · Dementia · Developmental psychology · Disease · Epistemology · Frontotemporal dementia · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Communication · Education, Healthcare and Sociology Research · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Medicine · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Philosophy · Psychology

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