Shumin Lin

List of John Benjamins publications in which Shumin Lin is involved.

Articles

Lin, Shumin 2024 Verbal play in dementia care: A longitudinal study Pragmatics of Active Social Inclusion, Matsumoto, Yoshiko and Heidi E. Hamilton (eds.), pp. 122–139 | Article

Humor has been found to be used as a discourse strategy for negotiating power relations and mitigating FTAs in institutional elderly care. Drawing from two years of ethnography in two adult day centers in Taiwan, this article examines verbal play between a person living with dementia and a… read more

Lin, Shumin 2024 Power, solidarity, and sajiao in dementia care Concentric 50:1, pp. 89–111 | Article

While scholars in the sociolinguistics of aging have shown that communication in eldercare is characterized by the predominance of infantilizing speech or elderspeak, sajiao, a self-infantilizing speech, has not been examined in this context. Further, current research on sajiao has focused… read more