CLARe3, FU Berlin, March 6–8, 2017 – International Conference
Encounters in Language and Aging Research:
Pragmatic Spaces, Longitudinal studies, Multilingualism
Öffentlicher Runder Tisch zu Pflegekommunikation bei Demenz und im interkulturellen Kontext
Round Table Healthcare: Experts from research & practitioners (Chair: C. Lindholm)
Input: S. Sachweh (TalkCare, Bochum)
As good as it (probably) gets – how living in a dementia housing project engenders animation and interactivity
Discussants:
P. Backhaus (Tokyo); S. Migala (PALQUALSUM, Berlin); N. Sari (Interkulturelle BrückenbauerInnen, Berlin); J. Svennevig (Oslo)
Tuesday March 7, 17 h, Fabeckstr. 23–25, "Holzlaube", -1.2009 (basement)
Keynotes
Peter Backhaus (WASEDA University, Tokyo): Communication in institutional eldercare: A Japanese perspective
R. Harald Baayen (Universität Tübingen / University of Alberta, Edmonton), Susanne Gahl (University of California, Berkeley): Twenty‐eight years of vowels: An investigation of changes in vowel formants and vowel duration in the Up corpus
Heidi E. Hamilton Georgetown University): Language, dementia and meaningmaking in art galleries and homes: Objects of joint attention as resources for transforming knowledge, building topics and lifting spirits
Yoshiko Matsumoto (Stanford University): Being ordinary: A powerful narrative strategy when feeling vulnerable
Heather H. Wright (East Carolina University): Discourse Changes with Age: Considering microlinguistic and macrolinguistic processes
Program
Abstracts
Venue: Fabeckstr. 23–25, "Holzlaube", -1.2009 (basement)
Freie Universität Berlin [Read more ...]
The Corpora for Language and Aging Research initiative (CLARe) aims at exploring language in later life through the glasses of linguists working on authentic language data.
The group has been created at the initiative of Catherine BOLLY and Annette GERSTENBERG in April 2014.
CLARe2: International Workshop December 7–9, 2015
Language Use in Later Life , University of Louvain (Belgium)
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, in order to develop the outlines of future collaboration in this young but cutting-edge domain of research in linguistics and aging. [Read more ...]
