2018 – 2024 Bilingual Alzheimer’s Dementia Project (BiliAD)

Carolin’s PhD project, the BiliAD Project, investigated the bilingual language use of people living with dementia in narrative interviews. For that she collected recorded conversations with people living with dementia and their primary care partners in Florida and analyzed form and function of code choices as well as code switches.

Book Publication

Schneider, C. (2023). An Ethno-Social Approach to Code Choice in bilinguals living with Alzheimer’s. London/Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46483-6

Other Publications

Schneider, C., & Bös, B. (2024). Code accommodation as a measure of inclusion for bilingual people living with dementia of the Alzheimer’s type: A case study. Pragmatics and Society, 15(1), 49-66. https://doi.org/10.1075/ps.23042.sch

Schneider, C. & Qalaj, B. (2023). ‘¿Cómo te sientes? – With my butt!’ Code-choice related humor in bilingual speakers living with dementia of the Alzheimer’s type. Journal for Language and Aging Research. 1(1), 27–48.  https://doi.org/10.15460/jlar.2023.1.1.1052

Schneider, C. (2022). ‘Te hablo en ingles?‘ Code choice negotiation in caregiving with bilinguals who are living with Alzheimer’s. In Boyd H. Davis & Margret Maclagan (Eds.), Dementia Caregiving East and West: Issues of Communication (pp. 54-69). Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

BiliAD Conference Talks

1. Schneider, C. & Llorente-Belda, N. (2024, June 26-29) Exploring Discourse Markers in Bilingual Dementia Contexts: A corpus-based approach. [Paper Presentation]. PALA, Sheffield, UK.
    
2. Schneider, C. (2024, May 30 – June 1). Navigating Bilingual Conversations in Dementia: Exploring the Intersection of Code- Choice, Co-construction, and Repetition Across Two Languages. [Paper Presentation]. InPra, Pisa, Italy.
    
3. Llorente-Belda, N. & Schneider, C. (2024, April 9-12) Navigating the Complexities of Self-referentiality and Deictic Expressions in Dementia: Exploring Bilingual Contexts, [Paper Presentation]. CLARe6, Tübingen, Germany.
    
4. Schneider, C. (2023, July 9-14). Contextualized Laughter and Joint Construction of Humor in Dementia Interaction: A Discourse-analytic Case Study. [Paper Presentation].  IPra, Brussels, Belgium.
    
5. Schneider, C. & Bös, B. (2022, December 1-3). ‘You have nothing to fear because we love you’ – Expressing            emotions in a digital Community of Practice of persons living with dementia. DRDHUM, Jyväskylä, Finnland.
    
6. Schneider, C. & Qalaj, B. (2022, March 9-11). ’¿Cómo te sientes? – With my butt!’ Code-choice related humor in bilingual speakers living with dementia of the Alzheimer’s type [Paper Presentation]. CLARe5, Anchorage, USA.
    
7. Schneider, C. (2021, August 15-20). ‘I have to be sincere, my mind is failing at times’ – Expressing memory loss in the face of Alzheimer’s Dementia [Paper Presentation], Panel: Experiencing illness and disease. Putting perceptions and emotions into language, AILA, Groningen, the Netherlands.
    
8. Schneider, C. & Bös, B. (2021, June 27- July 2). Code accommodation as a measure of inclusion for bilingual people living with DAT: A case study [Paper Presentation]. Panel: Taking actions to enhance inclusivity of persons with dementia: Pragmatics of active social inclusion, IPrA, Winterthur, Switzerland.
    
9. Schneider, C. (2021, May 15). ’Ah, ¡pues!’ – Discursive functions of interjections and interjective hesitators in bilingual Alzheimer’s discourse [Paper Presentation]. Southeastern Conference on Linguistics XXXVIII, Houston, USA.