講題：Who Gets to Be Social? Neurodiversity and Justice in Dementia Care
講者：林淑敏（國立陽明交通大學英語教學研究所教授兼所長）
地點：人社二館二樓203教室（HB203）
時間：4 月 28 日（週二）13:30-15:30
摘要：
Who gets to count as social in dementia care? Drawing on five years of ethnographic research at adult day centers in Taiwan, this talk examines how neurodiversity-affirming care can be enacted in everyday institutional interactions. Using the concept of frame lamination, I analyze how a skilled caregiver and people living with dementia blend care task interactions with social engagement. Based on video-recorded naturally-occurring interactions, I show how exercise becomes shared, embodied engagement; how forgetfulness can be reframed as humor; and how even overhearing is treated as active participation. By taking a neurodiversity lens to examine dementia communication, this study expands what sociolinguistics recognizes as meaningful communication, challenges deficit-focused medical models of care, and reframes dementia care as a site of interactional justice.