Embodiment in tests of cognitive functioning: A study of an interpreter-mediated dementia evaluation.
Dementia (London)
; 17(2): 138-163, 2018 Feb.
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ABSTRACT
This study explores how manners of mediation, and the use of embodiment in interpreter-mediated conversation have an impact on tests of cognitive functioning in a dementia evaluation. By a detailed analysis of video recordings, we show how participants-an occupational therapist, an interpreter, and a patient-use embodied practices to make the tasks of a test of cognitive functioning intelligible, and how participants collaboratively put the instructions of the tasks into practice. We demonstrate that both instructions and instructed actions-and the whole procedure of accomplishing the tasks-are shaped co-operatively by embodied practices of all three participants involved in the test situation. Consequently, the accomplishment of the tasks should be viewed as the outcome of a collaborative achievement of instructed actions, rather than an individual product. The result of the study calls attention to issues concerning interpretations of, and the reliability of interpreter-mediated tests and their bearings for diagnostic procedures in dementia evaluations.
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Tradução
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Barreiras de Comunicação
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Demência
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Testes Neuropsicológicos
Tipo de estudo:
Qualitative_research
Limite:
Aged
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Female
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Humans
País/Região como assunto:
Europa
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Dementia (London)
Ano de publicação:
2018
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Article