Publication details
Le malade d’Alzheimer autre à soi et a ses proches : la circularité comme mal et la régularité comme remédiation
| Title in English | Alzheimer’s Patients Other Than Themselves and Their Loved Ones : Circularity as Evil and Regularity as Remedy |
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| Year of publication | 2021 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature |
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| Citation | |
| Web | https://journals.umcs.pl/lsmll/issue/view/698/showToc |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/lsmll.2021.45.4.79-88 |
| Keywords | Alzheimer’s disease; memory; repetition; regularity; iteration; semantics; speech analysis |
| Description | ny caregiver who has to face the discursive and gestural repetitions of Alzheimer’s patients must nevertheless set up a daily schedule routine. This apparent paradox brings together circularity on the one hand and regularity on the other, two principles based on the same axiom: iteration. Iteration can cause the patient to be locked up within himself when it takes the shape of circularity, whereas it can be beneficial when it takes the form of a reassuring regularity. The latter removes, at least temporarily, the threat of a dual break of the patient, from himself and from his friends and family. In this article, we consider iteration from two angles, linguistic and behavioural. |
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