This paper analyses how people with dementia react to the question-answer adjacency pair. This work aims to (a), verify if the ability to answer questions persists until the final stages of dementia (b), check if the number of preferred and relevant answers decreases progressively and (c) prove the compensatory strategies they use to answer questions correctly. Ten people with different types of dementia were videotaped while talking about their lives. The findings suggest the ability to complete the question-adjacency pair is preserved until the severe stage, when the number of answered questions decreases. However, the number of preferred and relevant answers decreases as the disease progresses. Requests for clarification, vague responses and recognizing the communicative problems were the main communicative strategies used to continue with conversation.

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痴呆话语中的问答邻接对

本文分析了痴呆症患者对问答邻接对的反应。这项工作旨在 (a) 验证回答问题的能力是否持续到痴呆症的最后阶段 (b)，检查首选和相关答案的数量是否逐渐减少，以及 (c) 证明他们用于回答问题的补偿策略正确。十名患有不同类型痴呆症的人在谈论他们的生活时被录像。研究结果表明，完成问题-邻接对的能力会一直保留到严重阶段，此时回答的问题数量会减少。然而，随着疾病的进展，首选和相关答案的数量会减少。要求澄清，