People with early-to-mid stage dementia frequently attend groups that provide opportunities for socialising and engaging in group activities, such as quizzes. This article uses conversation analysis to investigate the interactional strategies that the staff use to initiate and keep these quizzes ‘on track’, and what they orient to as impediments and facilitators of quiz progression. Specifically, we outline how staff deal with incorrect or ‘non-answers’, and what happens when players have their own goals or ‘projects’ that do not align with staff members’ orientations to the overarching activity completion. We reflect on the tensions that arise between doing interactional work to progress through the quiz, and how that goal can conflict with attending to the needs or wishes expressed by the person living with dementia, potentially resulting in threats to the ‘face’ of the quiz players. Data are taken from a corpus of 10 quizzes recorded in 4 different group settings in England.

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在痴呆症环境中通过测验取得进展的互动策略

患有早期至中期痴呆症的人经常参加提供社交和参与小组活动（例如测验）机会的小组。本文使用对话分析来调查工作人员用来启动和保持这些测验“正轨”的交互策略，以及他们将什么作为测验进展的障碍和促进因素。具体来说，我们概述了工作人员如何处理不正确或“无答案”，以及当玩家有自己的目标或“项目”与工作人员对总体活动完成的方向不一致时会发生什么。我们反思了进行互动工作以通过测验取得进展之间出现的紧张关系，以及该目标如何与满足痴呆症患者表达的需求或愿望发生冲突，可能会威胁到测验玩家的“面子”。数据取自英格兰 4 个不同组设置中记录的 10 个测验的语料库。