Minutes: 7 Sept 05

Description  September 2005

October:  Poster Presentations on Extenders in AD discourse at Phraseology Conference, Louvain 2005 by Margaret Maclagan, Boyd Davis and Gina Tillard, and on Extenders and metonymy by Boyd Davis and Ron Lunsford

                 Presentation by Margaret Maclagan and Boyd Davis on Extenders, inter-subjectivity and social construction in AD discourse at NWAV 34

November: Presentation by Margaret Maclagan, Boyd Davis & Gina Tillard on Repetition in the speech of speakers with Alzheimer's Dementia. New Zealand Linguistics Society Conference. [web page link inactive]

December 2005: Lunsford and UNCC graduate students complete discourse analysis of First 'Wise Sayings' circle (40 min); analysis to be replicated Spring 2006 by students at UNCC and at NKNU (National Kaohsiung Normal University, ROC, Taiwan)

January 2006: Sondra Adcock, Oakbridge Terrace Activity Director, (Charlotte, NC) completes recorded collection of 8 40-minute Wise Sayings circle group discussions; being transcribed.