Language and aging in multilingual contexts

Language and aging in multilingual contexts / Kees de Bot and Sinfree Makoni.

This book discusses different aspects of language and aging. While both the 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. Projects on this topic...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: De Bot, Kees
Other Authors: Makoni, Sinfree
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Clevedon ; Buffalo : Multilingual Matters Ltd., ©2005.
Series:Bilingual education and bilingualism ; 53.
Subjects:
Multilingualism.
Aging.
Bilingualism & multilingualism.
Sociolinguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Sociolinguistics.
Multilinguisme.
Langues.
Personnes âgées.
Aging
Multilingualism
Altern
Mehrsprachigkeit
Ouderdom.
Meertaligheid.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: language, aging and multilingualism
  • Language and aging, a dynamic perspective
  • Language and communication with the elderly
  • Language use and language skills in the healthy and pathological aging
  • Resources in language and aging
  • Multilingualism, aging and dementia
  • Bilingual aging in older African-Americans
  • The effect of age and education on narrative complexity in older Chinese in the USA / Sinfree Makoni with Hwei-Bing-Lin & Robert Schrauf
  • Language in an epidemiological study: the North Manhattan aging study in New York City
  • Old and new perspectives on language and aging.

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