Dementia in the Minds of Characters and Readers

In this new project, Gemma Carney and Paula Devine (from ARK) are working with Jane Lugea (School of Arts, English and Languages at Queen's University Belfast) to investigate how the language of contemporary fiction represents the minds of characters with dementia.  The research includes mind style analysis of fictional texts, to explore how the language represents the cognitive experience of these characters i.e. their mind styles.  A series of reading groups will investigate how readers respond to these mind styles.  Find out more at: https://blogs.qub.ac.uk/dementiafiction