Publications

Recent publications (as of November 2024)

Hamilton, Heidi E. to appear. Language and dementia. In J.M. Hernández-Campoy, Olga Ivanova & Sandro Sessarego (eds.), The Cambridge handbook of applied sociolinguistics.

Hamilton, Heidi E. 2023. Towards a more complete picture of discourse in dementia studies. Journal of Language and Aging Research.

Matsumoto, Yoshiko and Heidi E. Hamilton. 2023. Taking actions to enhance inclusivity of persons with dementia. In Yoshiko Matsumoto and Heidi E. Hamilton (eds.), Pragmatics of active social inclusion, special issue of Pragmatics and Society.

Gerstenberg, Annette and Heidi E. Hamilton. 2022. Older adults' conversations and the emergence of "narrative crystals": A new approach to frequently told stories. Narrative Inquiry (published online March 10, 2022). https://benjamins.com/catalog/ni.21075.ger

Svennevig, Jan and Heidi E. Hamilton. 2021. Fostering participation in multiparty conversation by persons with dementia. In Unn Røyneland and Robert Blackwood (eds.), Trajectories of language: policies, spaces, and interactions.

Hamilton, Heidi E. 2021. Life as a linguist among clinicians: Learnings from cross-disciplinary collaborations on language and health. In Tamara Warhol and Allison Burkette (eds.), Interdisciplinary linguistics. Mouton de Gruyter.

Hamilton, Heidi E. 2021. Tribute to Deborah Schiffrin (1951-2017): Guiding light in discourse studies. Special issue edited by Rodrigo Borba, Kira Hall, and Mie Hiramoto “30 Year Retrospective on Language, Gender, and Sexuality Research” Gender and Language 15(1).

Hamilton, Heidi E. 2020. Pragmatics and dementia. In Klaus P. Schneider and Elly Ifantidou (eds.). Developmental and Clinical Pragmatics, Handbooks of Pragmatics (HOP), vol. 13, 611-646. De Gruyter Mouton.

Isaac, Adrienne and Heidi E. Hamilton. 2020. Meaningfulness at the intersection of knowledge and environmental objects: Investigating interactions in art galleries and residences involving persons with dementia and their carers. In Trini Strickle (ed.), Learning from the Talk of Persons with Dementia: A Practical Guide on Interaction and Interactional Research, 135-163. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Quam, Justin and Heidi E. Hamilton. 2020. From part of the scenery to curricular resourcesAuthentic signs as portals to cultural practices within a residential German language immersion program: In Greg Niedt and Corinne Seals (eds.), Linguistic Landscapes Beyond the Language Classroom. Bloomsbury.

Hamilton, Heidi E. 2019. Language, Dementia and Meaning Making: Navigating Challenges of Cognition and Face in Everyday Life. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Selected publications

Books

Hamilton, Heidi E. 2019. Language, Dementia and Meaning Making: Navigating Challenges of Cognition and Face in Everyday Life. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Tannen, Deborah, Hamilton, Heidi E. and Schiffrin, Deborah (eds.). 2015. Handbook of Discourse Analysis, 2nd edition. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.

Hamilton, Heidi E. and Chou, Wen-ying Sylvia (eds.). 2014. Handbook of Language and Health Communication. New York: Routledge.

Hamilton, Heidi E., Crane, Cori, and Bartoshesky, Abigail. 2005. Doing Foreign Language: Bringing Concordia Language Villages into Foreign Language Classrooms. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall. (also translated into Korean, 2009)

Hamilton, Heidi E. 2003. Glimmers: A Journey into Alzheimer’s Disease. Ashland, Oregon: RiverWood Books.

Alatis, James E., Hamilton, Heidi E., and Tan, Ai-hui (eds.). 2002. Language, Linguistics, and the Professions: Education, Journalism, Law, Medicine, and Technology. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.

Schiffrin, Deborah, Tannen, Deborah and Hamilton, Heidi E. (eds.). 2001. Handbook of Discourse Analysis. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

Hamilton, Heidi E. (ed.). 1999. Language and Communication in Old Age: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. New York: Garland Publishing.

Hamilton, Heidi E. 1994. Conversations with an Alzheimer's Patient: An Interactional Sociolinguistic Study. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (reissued as a Cambridge University Press classic in 2005)

Refereed journal articles and invited book chapters

Svennevig, Jan and Heidi E. Hamilton. forthcoming. Fostering participation in multiparty conversation by persons with dementia. In Unn Røyneland and Robert Blackwood (eds.), Trajectories of language: policies, spaces, and interactions.

Isaac, Adrienne and Heidi E. Hamilton. 2019. Access and epistemic authority in question-answer sequences between museum guides and visitors diagnosed with dementia in an art museum. In Camilla C. Lindholm and Annette Gerstenberg (eds.), special issue of Linguistics Vanguard on language and aging.

Hamilton, Heidi E. and Hamaguchi, Toshiko. 2015. Discourse and aging. In Deborah Tannen, Heidi E. Hamilton, and Deborah Schiffrin (eds.), Handbook of Discourse Analysis, 2nd edition, 705-727. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.

Hamilton, Heidi E. and Baffy, Marta. 2014. Preparing for performance: Identity shaping through script editing in an early memory loss support group. In Robert W. Schrauf and Nicole Müller (eds.), Dialogue and Dementia: Cognitive and Communicative Resources for Engagement, 213-244. New York: Psychology Press.

Hamilton, Heidi E. and Chou, Wen-ying Sylvia. 2014. Introduction: Health communication as applied linguistics. Handbook of Language and Health Communication, 1-12. New York: Routledge.

Hamilton, Heidi E. and Bartell, Ashley. 2011. Peering inside the black box: Lay and professional reasoning surrounding patient claims of adverse drug effects. In Christopher Candlin and Srikant Sarangi (eds.), Handbook of Communication in Organisations and Professions, vol. 3 of Handbooks of Applied Linguistics, 143-172. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Hamilton, Heidi E. 2011. At the intersection of art, Alzheimer’s disease, and discourse: Talk in the surround of paintings. In Peter Backhaus (ed.), Communication in Elderly Care: Cross-Cultural Perspectives, 166-193. New York, London: Continuum.

Hamilton, Heidi E. 2011. Conversations with an Alzheimer’s patient: An interactional sociolinguistic study. Section 8 Pragmatics and conversation: Development and impairment. In Dawn Archer and Peter Grundy (eds.), The Pragmatics Reader, 419-432. London and New York: Routledge.

Hamilton, Heidi E. 2010. Narrative as snapshot: Glimpses of the past in Alzheimer talk. In Anna Duszak and Urszula Okulska (eds.), Language, Culture and the Dynamics of Age, 78-108. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.

Hamilton, Heidi E. 2008. Language and dementia: sociolinguistic aspects. In C. L. J. de Bot (ed.), Language and the Brain, vol. 28 of the Annual Review of Applied Linguistics (ARAL), 91-110. Cambridge University Press.

Hamilton, Heidi E. 2008. Narrative as snapshot: Glimpses of the past in Alzheimer talk. Narrative Inquiry 18 (1): 53-82.

Hamilton, Heidi E., Gordon, Cynthia, Nelson, Meaghan, Martin, Paul, and Cotler, Scott. 2008. “’We’re talking about cure”: How physicians describe outcomes to HCV therapy. Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology 42: 419-424.

Nelson, Meaghan and Hamilton, Heidi E. 2007. Improving in-office discussion of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Results and recommendations from an in-office linguistic study in COPD. The American Journal of Medicine 120 (8A): S28-S32.

Davidson, Bradley, Blum, D., Cella, D., Hamilton, H., Nail, L., and Waltzman, R. 2007. Communicating about chemotherapy-induced anemia and related fatigue: Recommendations from an observational linguistic study. Journal of Supportive Oncology 5: 36-40, 46.

Hamilton, Heidi E., Nelson, Meaghan, Martin, Paul, and Cotler, Scott. 2006. Communication and comprehension of response in Hepatitis C. Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 4/4: 507-513.

Hamilton, Heidi E., Nelson, Meaghan, Gordon, Cynthia. 2006. Physicians, nurses and patients communicating in Hepatitis C: An in-office sociolinguistic study. Gastroenterology Nursing 29/5: 364-370.

Hamilton, Heidi E. 2005. The prism, the soliloquy, the couch, and the dance: The evolving study of language and Alzheimer’s disease. In Boyd Davis (ed.), Alzheimer Talk, Text and Context, 224-246. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan.

Hamilton, Heidi E. 2005. Repair of teenagers’ spoken German in a summer immersion program. In Diana Boxer and Andrew D. Cohen (eds.), Studying Speaking to Inform Second Language Learning, 88-114. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters Ltd.

Hamilton, Heidi E. 2004. Symptoms and signs in particular: The influence of the medical condition on the shape of physician-patient talk. Communication & Medicine 1:59-70.

Hamilton, Heidi E. and Cohen, Andrew D. 2004. Creating a playworld: Motivating learners to take a chance in a second language. In Jan M. Frodeson and Christine A. Holten (eds.), The Power of Context in Language Teaching and Learning. Festschrift in Honor of Marianne Celce-Murcia, 237-247. Heinle & Heinle.

Hamilton, Heidi E. 2003. Patients’ voices in the medical world: An exploration of accounts of noncompliance. In Deborah Tannen and James E. Alatis (eds.), Linguistics, Language, and the Real World: Discourse and Beyond, 147-165. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.

Hamilton, Heidi E. 2003. Institutional linguistics. International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, 2nd edition (William Frawley, Editor in Chief). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Gordon, Cynthia, Prince, Michele, Benkendorf, Judith, and Hamilton, Heidi E. 2002. “People say it’s a little uncomfortable”: Prenatal genetic counselors’ use of constructed dialogue to reference procedural pain. Journal of Genetic Counseling 11: 245-263.

Benkendorf, Judith, Prince, Michele, Hamilton, Heidi E., Rose, Mary, and DeFina, Anna. 2001. Does indirect speech promote nondirective genetic counseling? American Journal of Medical Genetics 106: 199-207.

Hamilton, Heidi E. 2001. Discourse and aging. In Deborah Schiffrin, Deborah Tannen, and Heidi E. Hamilton (eds.), Handbook of Discourse Analysis, 568-589. Oxford: Blackwell.

Hamilton, Heidi E. 2000. Dealing with declining health in old age: Identity construction in the Oppen Family letter exchange. In Joy Peyton, Peg Griffin, Walt Wolfram, and Ralph Fasold (eds.), Language in Action: New Studies of Language in Society, 599-610. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Hamilton, Heidi E. 1999. Language and communication in old age: Some methodological considerations. In Heidi E. Hamilton (ed.), Language and Communication in Old Age: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, 3-22. New York: Garland Publishing.

Hamilton, Heidi E. 1998. Reported speech and survivor identity in on-line bone marrow transplantation narratives. Journal of Sociolinguistics 2 (1): 53-67.

Larson, Elaine, Hamilton, Heidi E., and Eisenberg, John. 1998. Hospitalk: An exploratory study to assess what is said and what is heard between physicians and nurses. Clinical Performance and Quality Health Care 6/4: 183-189.

Hamilton, Heidi E. 1996. Intratextuality, intertextuality and the construction of identity as patient in Alzheimer's Disease. Text 16/1: 61-90.

Hamilton, Heidi E. 1994. Requests for clarification as evidence of pragmatic comprehension difficulty: The case of Alzheimer's disease. In Ronald L. Bloom, Loraine K. Obler, Susan DeSanti, and Jonathan S. Ehlich (eds.), Discourse Analysis and Applications: Studies in Adult Clinical Populations, 185-199. New York: Erlbaum.

Hamilton, Heidi E. 1994. Ethical issues for applying linguistics to clinical contexts: The case of speech-language pathology. In Jeff Connor-Linton and Carolyn T. Adger (eds.), special issue on Ethical Issues for Applying Linguistics, Issues in Applied Linguistics 4(2): 207-223.

Hamilton, Heidi E. 1992. Bringing aging into the language/gender equation. In Kira Hall, Mary Bucholtz and Birch Moonwomon (eds.), Locating Power, 240-249. Berkeley, California: University of California Press.

Hamilton, Heidi E. 1991. Accommodation and mental disability. In Howard Giles, Nikolas Coupland and Justine Coupland (eds.), Contexts of Accommodation: Developments in Applied Sociolinguistics, 157-186. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Hamilton, Heidi E. 1988. Causes and consequences of communicative breakdown: The case of Alzheimer's disease. Linguistische Berichte 113: 53-63.

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