Transcribing discourse: interactions with Alzheimer's disease
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Lexical Decision Task for Studying Written Word Recognition in Adults with and without Dementia or Mild Cognitive Impairment
Published on: June 25, 2019
Nicole Müller1, Jacqueline A Guendouzi
1Department of Communicative Disorders, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, PO Box 43170, Lafayette, LA 70405-3170, USA. nmueller@louisiana.edu
Abstract:
This paper illustrates the use of a 'discourse line' in transcribing spoken interaction between a person with Alzheimer's disease, and a visitor. Discourse is here interpreted as a metacategory, or an analytic level of interaction. We view transcribing as an integral part of 'doing discourse', and use two sub-layers of the discourse line, dedicated to speech acts and conversation analysis, respectively. The prosody and voice layer is used to show the analysis of a speaker's use of a specific voice quality in discourse terms.
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