36.3656, Books: Navigating Dementia and Society: Putland (2025)

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Date: 25-Nov-2025
From: Lucy Trotter [lucy.trotter at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: Navigating Dementia and Society: Putland (2025)


Title: Navigating Dementia and Society
Subtitle: Exploring How People Affected by Dementia Negotiate and
Reshape Popular Discourses
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
           http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/navigating-dementia-and-society-9781350428867/

Author(s): Emma Putland

Hardback, ISBN: 9781350428867, Price: £95.00

Abstract:

This open access book explores how people in England who are affected
by dementia (either by having a diagnosis or being a carer or loved
one of someone who does) navigate different dementia discourses,
interpret social texts and recommend discursive change. Drawing on
thematic discourse analysis, and in particular multimodal critical
discourse analysis (MCDA), it examines how different communicative
modes can be used to reinforce or challenge particular worldviews and
social practices, such as the marginalisation of people with dementia.
Key themes include the need for nuance when discussing dementia and
the tensions between different types of understandings of dementia
(particularly across medical professionals, the media, and people
affected by dementia).
The author examines how individuals with and otherwise affected by
dementia differently reinforce, challenge and provide alternatives to
dominant dementia discourses and how such experience-led debates might
inform social discourses moving forward. In particular, this book
advocates for more nuanced and normalising visual and linguistic
representations of dementia that can better support the advocacy of
people with (and otherwise affected by) dementia and address social
stigma.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC
BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was
funded by UKRI.

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Discourse Analysis
                     General Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics




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