Reviews of my newest book Language, Dementia and Meaning Making: Navigating Challenges of Cognition and Face in Everyday Life (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
journey--at once personal and yet at once universal--from her first book on dementia and conversations to the present one on understanding memory as dynamic, evolving, fluid and fully sociolinguistic. This is a very necessary read for all scholars researching issues of memory, language and sociocognition." Vaidehi Ramanathan, Professor of Linguistics, University of California, Davis "In a deeply-researched discussion as remarkable for its clarity as for its emphasis on empathetic interaction, Hamilton draws on a lifetime of thought and research to ask: How can people with and without dementia recognize and share what they know in conversation? How do efforts to make meaning help or hinder speakers with dementia in retaining self-worth, a positive self-image, a 'face'?" Boyd H. Davis, Bonnie E. Cone Professor of Teaching in Applied Linguistics/ English and Professor of Gerontology, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
"This book offers the most up-to-date understanding of the social nature of human cognition. Hamilton takes us on a
