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Trini Stickle UW-Madison June 27, 2013

“Don’t ask me those questions!” The co-construction of epistemic stance in the talk of persons with dementia. Trini Stickle UW-Madison June 27, 2013. Introduction: The effects of dementia on displays of epistemic stance .

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Trini Stickle UW-Madison June 27, 2013

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  1. “Don’t ask me those questions!”The co-construction of epistemic stance in the talk of persons with dementia Trini Stickle UW-Madison June 27, 2013

  2. Introduction: The effects of dementia on displays of epistemic stance • Dementia: Disruptions in cognitive and memory capacity within everyday interactions • Awareness of disruptions to cognitive and memory (Plassman et al., 2007) • Awareness that disruptions could have possible interactional consequence (Guendouzi & Müller, 2001) • Linguistic resources used to express states of knowledge or knowing • How we know what we know—evidentials(I see, I hear; I believe) • How certain we know what we know—epistemics(I know, I guess; probably; It is Bob) • Sociality and the negotiation of epistemic positions in conversation • Management of face with respect to differential knowledge levels (Goffman, 1957; Brown & Levinson, 1978, 1987) • Management of differential epistemic positions among participants through turn design (Heritage & Raymond, 2005; Raymond & Heritage, 2006; Stivers, et al., 2010)

  3. Impetus • Anecdotal observations • Experiences with my mother and initial signs of vascular dementia • Unexpected usage of I know, I guess • Empirical observations from the Carolinas Conversation Collection • Data: Audio recordings of conversations between elderly participants with various health issues and student interviewers • Epistemic downgrades • Overt displays of uncertainty or lack of knowledge in the talk of PwD • Examples: I don’t know, I think, I guess

  4. Research questions and Methods employed • (1) Do PwD display different types and distribution patterns of epistemic markers compared with nonimpaired persons: matched cohort? Corpus studies? • (2) What interactional practices—sequences of talk and design of turns—contribute to the use of epistemic downgrades in the talk of persons with dementia; • (3) What are the consequences on local interactions or the sociability of PwD when faced with recurring moments of not knowing? Method: Corpus study A subset of the Carolinas Conversations Collection (CCC) Audio recordings of conversations between elderly participants and student interviewers Two Cohorts: PwD and unimpaired persons; comparison with two corpus studies on epistemic stance in conversations Method: Conversation analysis and interactional linguistics Focus on both the PwD and the nonimpairedcoparticipant’s actions and turn designs (syntactic and prosodic) that result in epistemic downgrades—displays of not knowing Method: Iterative CA and IL analysis of turns and actions that seem to reduce displays of epistemic downgrades and facilitate the progression of talk

  5. Onbehalf of all the aging Badgers, I thank you for your work. And, I look forward to your questions and comments mine.Trini Stickle

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