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Online registration (free of charge, open until November 15)
Organization Committee : Dr. C. T. Bolly (Universität zu Köln & University of Louvain), Prof. P. Feyereisen (University of Louvain), Prof. A. Gerstenberg (Freie Universität Berlin), Dr. L. Meurant (University of Namur), Prof. A. C. Simon (University of Louvain)
Keynote speakers: Dr. V. Charlot (Namur), Prof. B. E. Davis (Univ. North Carolina), Prof. H. Hamilton (Georgetown Univ.), Prof Dr. C. Lindholm (Elsingfors Univ.), Prof. A. Wray (Cardiff Univ.)
Summary
[Français plus bas] With the participation of leading experts in the field, the workshop aims to focus on the theoretical implications of empirical work as conducted by CLARe's projects (Corpora for Language and Aging Research), in order to develop the outlines of future collaboration in this young but cutting-edge domain of research in linguistics and aging. Although important studies on related subjects have been published since the 1940s, the field of studies on language and age and its relationships has remained marginal to date in linguistics. Contrary to the demographic situation of contemporary societies, where the older age groups take part in a wide range of social activities, the older people are underrepresented in sociolinguistic panels. While in psycholinguistics ‘normal aging’ has turned out to be an important issue, it still has not obtained the status of ‘normal’ issues in linguistic research areas concerned with empirical data, as in sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, and pragmatics. The workshop aims to confront the challenges of situating research on age-related topics in the broader spectrum of linguistic fields and to promote interdisciplinary and cross-linguistic exchange. Summarizing the results reached so far will help to sharpen the questions of future research:
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