Books by Vai Ramanathan

This text studies the narrative discourse of 16 patients suffering from Alzheimer's disease (AD), and seeks to understand it in contextual terms. It examines ways in which some social factors - audiences, setting and time - influence the extensiveness and meaningfulness of AD talk.

Emphasizes the importance of alerting potential (L1 and L2) teachers to the politics of their professional worlds. Vai Ramanathan argues that teachers-in-training can become more reflective and critical if alerted to the political implications of their programmes' curricular materials and methods.