Boyd Davis

List of John Benjamins publications in which Boyd Davis is involved.

Titles

Dementia-compromised language conflict and aggression

Edited by Boyd Davis

Special issue of Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 4:1 (2016) v, 150 pp.

Fillers, Pauses and Placeholders

Edited by Nino Amiridze, Boyd Davis and Margaret Maclagan

Fillers are items that speakers insert in spontaneous speech as a repair strategy. Types of fillers include hesitation markers and placeholders. Both are used to fill pauses that arise during planning problems or in lexical retrieval failure. However, while hesitation markers may not bear any… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 93] 2010. vii, 224 pp.

First Person Singular: Papers from the Conference on an Oral Archive for the History of American Linguistics. (Charlotte, N.C., March 1979)

Edited by Boyd Davis and Raymond K. O’Cain

This volume consists of autobiographical by the following scholars, together with pictures and autographs: Raven I. McDavid, Jr., Henry M. Hoenigswald, John B. Carroll, William G. Moulton, Archibald A. Hill, Yakov Malkiel, Charles F. Hockett, Harold B. Allen, William Bright, Einar Haugen, George S.… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 21] 1980. xiv, 239 pp.

Davis, Boyd, Margaret Maclagan and Meredith Troutman-Jordan 2024 Learning from initial reviews of multilingual graphics illustrating dementia caregiving Pragmatics of Active Social Inclusion, Matsumoto, Yoshiko and Heidi E. Hamilton (eds.), pp. 85–103 | Article

This study traces the initial processes in creating and assessing ‘comics,’ or graphic materials of various sorts, which illustrate situations in dementia caregiving. Dementia care materials intended for paid caregivers need to accommodate three related work situations (home care aides,… read more

Davis, Boyd 2016 Dementia-compromised language conflict and aggression Dementia-compromised language conflict and aggression, Davis, Boyd (ed.), pp. 1–7 | Article

Davis, Boyd and Margaret Maclagan 2016 Sociolinguistics, language, and aging Cognition, Language and Aging, Wright, Heather Harris (ed.), pp. 221–245 | Article

Using a sociopragmatic lens, we highlight recent strands of research focusing on two of the three main areas identified by Hamilton (1999): the use of language for reflecting and creating identities; and how discourse can reflect the norms, values and practices of society. We focus on studies of… read more

Davis, Boyd, Margaret Maclagan and Dena Shenk 2016 The silent violence of marginalization and teasing in dementia care residences Dementia-compromised language conflict and aggression, Davis, Boyd (ed.), pp. 35–61 | Article

Differences in power are frequent in institutional care settings and provide contexts in which conflict can occur. In order to examine the power imbalance between residents and caregivers and the consequent potential for verbal conflict we first discuss the situations in which persons with… read more

Davis, Boyd and Margaret Maclagan 2010 Pauses, fillers, placeholders and formulaicity in Alzheimer’s discourse: Gluing relationships as impairment increases Fillers, Pauses and Placeholders, Amiridze, Nino, Boyd Davis and Margaret Maclagan (eds.), pp. 189–216 | Article

Extracts from the speech of three women with Alzheimer’s Disease are analyzed in order to highlight functions of pauses, fillers, placeholders, and formulaic phrases. Although other features of their speech decline, placeholders, fillers and formulaic sequences are still used appropriately and help… read more

Maclagan, Margaret, Boyd Davis and Ron Lunsford 2008 11. Fixed expressions, extenders and metonymy in the speech of people with Alzheimer's disease Phraseology: An interdisciplinary perspective, Granger, Sylviane and Fanny Meunier (eds.), pp. 175–187 | Article

In this chapter we demonstrate how fixed expressions, extenders and metonymy help maintain the appearance of competence for speakers with Alzheimer’s disease. We compare impaired and unimpaired speakers from two different countries (the United States of America and New Zealand) to show that… read more

Davis, Boyd 1980 Saggio sul vocalismo indoeuropeo. By Ferdinand de Saussure Historiographia Linguistica 7:3, pp. 397–401 | Review

Davis, Boyd 1978 Archibald Henry Sayce (1845–1933) Historiographia Linguistica 5:3, pp. 339–345 | Miscellaneous

Davis, Boyd 1974 The Neogrammarians: A re-evaluation of their place in the development of linguistic science. By Kurt R[obert] Jankowsky Historiographia Linguistica 1:1, pp. 95–110 | Review article