Language and Aging in Multilingual Contexts

Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-1-85359-841-8
Verlag: Multilingual Matters

Buch, Englisch, 162 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 338 g

In this book different aspects of language and aging are discussed. While language spoken by and language spoken with elderly people have been treated as different areas of research, it is argued here that from a dynamical system perspective the two are closely interrelated. In addition to overviews of research on language and aging, a number of projects on this topic in multilingual settings are presented.

Autoren/Hrsg.

De Bot, Kees

Makoni, Sinfree

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Mehrsprachigkeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

1 Introduction: Language, Aging and Multilingualism

2 Language and Aging: A Dynamic Perspective

3 Language and Communication with the Elderly

4 Language Use and Language Skills in Healthy and Pathological Aging

5 Resources in Language and Aging

6 Multilingualism, Aging and Dementia

7 Bilingual Aging in Older African-Americans

8 The Effects of Age and Education on Narrative Complexity in Older Chinese in the USA

(Sinfree Makoni with Hwei-Bin Lin and Robert Schrauf)

9 Language in an Epidemiological Study: The North Manhattan Aging Study in New York City

10 Old and New Perspectives on Language and Aging

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

De Bot, Kees
Kees de Bot got his PhD from the University of Nijmegen. He was chair of Applied Linguistics and is now an emeritus professor from the University of Groningen and full professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Pannonia in Vészprem in Hungary. His research interests include the application of Complex Dynamic Systems Theory in second language development and multilingualism, multilingual processing, language attrition and the history of Applied Linguistics. More recently he got interested in ethical issues and truth in science. He is one of the organisers of the 2020 World Congress of the International Association of Applied Linguistics in Groningen.

Makoni, Sinfree
Sinfree Makoni is Director of African Studies, Liberal Arts Professor of African Studies and Applied Linguistics, The Pennsylvania State University, USA.

Kees de Bot is Chair of Applied Linguistics at the University of Groningen. His research interests include psycholinguistic aspects of multilingualism, maintenance and loss of languages and language policy. More recently he has turned his interest to the application of Dynamic Systems Theory in applied Linguistics.

Sinfree Makoni is an internationalist. He did his Phd in the UK and has held a number of professional appointments in the Africa and currently teaches in the US.  His main research interests are aging and health in multilingual contexts across the globe, and language in urban contexts.