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Day 1 – Monday 7 December 2015 (BFLT/FIAL Building, ‘Salle du Conseil’) | ||
12:00 – 13:00 | Welcome (Lunch) | |
13:00 – 13:15 | Dr. C. T. Bolly/Prof. A. Gerstenberg | Presentation of the CLARe network |
13:15 – 13:30 | Prof. D. Desmette | Presentation of the Louvain4Ageing network |
13:30 – 14:30 | Prof. A. Wray | Unaccustomed pragmatic spaces: The impact on carers when people with Alzheimer's repair their linguistic output |
14:30 – 15:00 | Prof. J. Schröder/C. Frankenberg (Univ. Heidelberg) | The ILSE project: Interdisciplinary Longitudinal Study of Adult Development |
15:00 – 15:30 | Prof.s M. de Saint-Hubert/C. Swine | Frailty and Aging Health |
15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee Break | |
16:00 – 16:30 | Prof. S. Agrigoroaei | Looking at cognitive aging and verbal abilities through a psychosocial lens: Empirical evidence and methodological challenges |
16:30 – 17:30 | Dr. V. Charlot | Elderspeak as a means to improve mutual understanding? Its impact on older people’s self-esteem and dependency |
17:30 – 18:30 | Round Table 1 | Outside academia: Applied linguistics in care of older people and training |
Day 2 – Tuesday 8 December 2015 (BFLT/FIAL Building, ‘Salle du Conseil’) | ||
09:00 – 10:00 | Prof. B. H. Davis | Thirteen ways of looking at a corpus: Mining the Carolinas Conversations Collection of language produced by older speakers with and without cognitive impairment |
10:00 – 10:30 | L. Rousier-Vercruyssen (Univ. Neuchâtel & Paris Ouest Nanterre) | How, when and why old speakers are more disfluent than young speakers? |
10:30 – 11:00 | J. Kairet | The CLARe corpora (Corpage, CorpAGEst, LangAge): Issues in speech transcription |
11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee Break | |
11:30 – 12:30 | Data Session 1 | Audio data |
12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch Break | |
13:30 – 14:30 | Prof. A. Gerstenberg | The concept of compensation and the language in later life |
14:30 – 15:00 | V. Hekkel | Linguistic change and aging: How causal constructions vary over age and time |
15:00 – 15:30 | Coffee Break | |
15:30 – 16:30 | Prof. C. Lindholm | Talking to yourself again? Between self and other – multiparty conversation and dementia |
16:30 – 17:30 | Round Table 2 | Funding opportunities |
Day 3 – Wednesday 9 December 2015 (BFLT/FIAL Building, ‘Salle du Conseil’) | ||
09:00 – 10:00 | Dr. C. T. Bolly/S. Gabarró-López/Dr. L. Meurant (Univ. zu Köln/Univ. Namur) | Mapping the pragmatic world of old age: Pragmatic markers and pragmatic gestures in interactions |
10:00 – 10:30 | G. Duboisdindien | Making the autobiographical discourse easier for the elderly. The use of sensory reminiscence tasks |
10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break | |
11:00 – 12:30 | Data session 2 | Video data in Spoken Language and Sign Language |
12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch Break | |
13:30 – 14:30 | Prof. H. Hamilton | Knowing in dementia: Negotiating everyday challenges of epistemics and face |
14:30 – 15:30 | Round Table 3 | Academic results: The place of linguistic research on age-related questions |
15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee Break | |
16:00 – 17:00 | Future avenues of the CLARe network (open to public): General Assembly and Constitution of the Scientific Board |