Navigating Dementia and Society

This open access book explores how people in England who are affected by dementia (either by having a diagnosis or being a carer or loved one of someone who does) navigate different dementia discourses, interpret social texts and recommend discursive change. Drawing on thematic discourse analysis, a...

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Autor principal: Putland, Emma
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description This open access book explores how people in England who are affected by dementia (either by having a diagnosis or being a carer or loved one of someone who does) navigate different dementia discourses, interpret social texts and recommend discursive change. Drawing on thematic discourse analysis, and in particular multimodal critical discourse analysis (MCDA), it examines how different communicative modes can be used to reinforce or challenge particular worldviews and social practices, such as the marginalisation of people with dementia. Key themes include the need for nuance when discussing dementia and the tensions between different types of understandings of dementia (particularly across medical professionals, the media, and people affected by dementia). The author examines how individuals with and otherwise affected by dementia differently reinforce, challenge and provide alternatives to dominant dementia discourses and how such experience-led debates might inform social discourses moving forward. In particular, this book advocates for more nuanced and normalising visual and linguistic representations of dementia that can better support the advocacy of people with (and otherwise affected by) dementia and address social stigma. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by UKRI.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1757842026-04-20T08:38:54Z Navigating Dementia and Society Putland, Emma Sociolinguistics Multimodal critical discourse analysis MCDA Illness Alzheimer's UK healthcare Carers England Disability Qualitative research Social semiotics Systemic functional linguistics Representations of dementia Subjectivity Identity thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFB Sociolinguistics thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFG Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MK Medical specialties, branches of medicine::MKJ Neurology and clinical neurophysiology::MKJD Alzheimer’s and dementia thema EDItEUR::V Health, Relationships and Personal development::VF Family and health::VFJ Coping with / advice about personal, social and health topics::VFJB Coping with / advice about illness and specific health conditions This open access book explores how people in England who are affected by dementia (either by having a diagnosis or being a carer or loved one of someone who does) navigate different dementia discourses, interpret social texts and recommend discursive change. Drawing on thematic discourse analysis, and in particular multimodal critical discourse analysis (MCDA), it examines how different communicative modes can be used to reinforce or challenge particular worldviews and social practices, such as the marginalisation of people with dementia. Key themes include the need for nuance when discussing dementia and the tensions between different types of understandings of dementia (particularly across medical professionals, the media, and people affected by dementia). The author examines how individuals with and otherwise affected by dementia differently reinforce, challenge and provide alternatives to dominant dementia discourses and how such experience-led debates might inform social discourses moving forward. In particular, this book advocates for more nuanced and normalising visual and linguistic representations of dementia that can better support the advocacy of people with (and otherwise affected by) dementia and address social stigma. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by UKRI. 2026-04-20T08:38:53Z 2026-04-20T08:38:53Z 2026-04-16T10:01:30Z 2025 book ONIX_20260415T184305_9781350428881_47 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/112352 9781350428881 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/175784 eng open access Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Bloomsbury Academic b7fec79e-c133-4cb3-9544-88060a4d4e06 9781350428881 Bloomsbury Academic 288 London open access
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Navigating Dementia and Society
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Multimodal critical discourse analysis
MCDA
Illness
Alzheimer's
UK healthcare
Carers
England
Disability
Qualitative research
Social semiotics
Systemic functional linguistics
Representations of dementia
Subjectivity
Identity
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thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFG Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics
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Alzheimer's
UK healthcare
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England
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Social semiotics
Systemic functional linguistics
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Subjectivity
Identity
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