Language, Aging and Society: What Can Linguistics Do for the Aging World?

Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
1 Introduction: What Can Linguistics Do for the Aging World?
	1 Language and Aging
		1.1 Language Revealing the Health Status While Aging
		1.2 Language Reflecting Individuals’ Reviews of Aging
		1.3 Language Prompting Development of an Aging Society
	2 Current Contributions of Language Research to the Development of an Aging Society
		2.1 Language Studies and Aging Brain Mechanisms
		2.2 Language Studies and Social Services
	3 The Arrangement of This Collection
		3.1 Section 1: Representing Aging Images from Social Media
		3.2 Section 2: Sketching Diverse Interactions in Public Settings
		3.3 Section 3: Promoting Healthy Aging through Language Interventions
	4 Conclusion
	References
Part I Representing Aging Images from Social Media
2 Expanding Social Interaction Through Online Technology: Using Social Media in Vascular Dementia
	1 Brief Overview of Vascular Dementia
	2 Internet Resources: Blogs, “Lifelogging,” Social Media, and Dementia
	3 Introducing Our Co-author and His YouTube Channel About His Vascular Dementia
	4 Language Changes in Vascular Dementia (VDmi) As Seen In Postings by Tamblin
	5 Types of Story Structures
		5.1 Narrative Chunk 1: Includes 2 Small Stories
		5.2 Two Single-Utterance Small Stories
	6 Final Implications
	References
3 Who We Are and How Others See Us: Older Adults’ Images and Identities in Chinese News Media
	1 Introduction
	2 Identity and Image: A Review
		2.1 Definition of Identity and Image
		2.2 Identities and Images of Older Adults
	3 Appraisal Theory
	4 Data and Methodology
		4.1 Data Collection
		4.2 Annotating Principles and Process
	5 Data Analysis
		5.1 Age Images and Identities
		5.2 Utilization of Appraisal Resources
	6 Age Images and Identities Constructed in Chinese Media
		6.1 Age Role and Actor
		6.2 Age Attribution
		6.3 Age Image
	7 The Use of Three Appraisal Resources
		7.1 Engagement Resources
		7.2 Attitude Resources
		7.3 Graduation Resources
	8 State Media and Local Media: A Contrast
		8.1 Similarities: Multiple Facets and Construction Ways
		8.2 Differences: From Frailty to Vitality
	9 Discussion: A Binary Channel Model
	10 Conclusion
	References
4 Pluralities of Old Age: A Study Based on Online Surveys in China and France
	1 Introduction
	2 The Survey
	3 Definitions of Old Age
	4 Typical Activities Associated with Elderly Individuals
	5 Places
	6 First Signs of Aging
	7 Gender
	8 Conclusion
	References
Part II Sketching Diverse Interactions in Public Settings
5 Aging Patients’ Repetition of Narrative Topics in Medical Interactions
	1 Introduction and Literature Review
	2 Theoretical Framework and Data Collection
	3 Analysis
		3.1 Repetition Showing the Patient’s Medical Concerns
		3.2 Repetition for Navigating the Narrative Topics
		3.3 Repetition for Enacting Interpersonal Involvement
	4 Discussion
	5 Conclusion
	Appendix
	Note
	References
6 Conversational Behaviours in Clinical Diagnosis: An Empirical Study of Question–Answering of Dementia in Alzheimer-Type Patients
	1 Introduction
	2 Question–Answer Sequences
	3 Question–Answer Sequences in Medical Interactions
	4 Methods
	5 Question–Answering of Patients with AD in Testing Interactions
		5.1 Patient’s Direct Answers
		5.2 Patient’s Initiation of Repairs
	6 Discussion
	7 Conclusion
	Appendix: Transcription Conventions
	References
7 Older Adults’ Help-Seeking Narration as Multimodal Text: A Corpus Linguistic Approach to Situated Discourse
	1 Introduction
	2 Literature Review
		2.1 Research on Older Adults’ Narration
		2.2 Research on Protection of Aging Rights and Interests
	3 Multimodal Text Analysis: Analytic Scheme Proposed by Gu
		3.1 The Older Adults' Help-Seeking Narration as Multimodal Text
		3.2 An Analytic Scheme of Multimodal Text
	4 Methodology
		4.1 Research Questions
		4.2 Data Collection: Video-Text Recordings of Older Adults' Help-Seeking Narration
		4.3 Corpus Linguistic Approach to Segmenting and Annotating the Multimodal Text
	5 Multimodal Text Analysis of Older Adults’ Help-Seeking Narration
		5.1 Features of Older Adults' Help-Seeking Narration: Social Situation, Activity Type, Task/Episode, Talking and Doing, Acts, Prosodic Units
		5.2 Analysis of Communicative Difficulties in Older Adults’ Help-Seeking Narration and the Reasons
	6 Implications and Conclusion
		6.1 Implications for Language Services for the Older Adults
		6.2 Implications for Protecting the Rights and Interests of Older Adults in an Aging Society
		6.3 Conclusion
	References
8 Linguistic Studies on Persons with Dementia (1993–2023): A Bibliometric Analysis
	1 Introduction
	2 Research Questions and Data
	3 Results and Discussion
		3.1 Analysis of Annual Scientific Production
		3.2 Analysis of Journals
		3.3 Analysis of Authors, Affiliations, and Countries
			3.3.1 Prolific authors
			3.3.2 Most relevant affiliations and countries
		3.4 Analysis of Research Themes
		3.5 Analysis of Research Trends
	4 Future Directions and Suggestions for Novice Researchers
	5 Conclusions and Limitations
	References
Part III Promoting Healthy Aging through Language Interventions
9 The Role of Linguistics in the Study of Aging Populations with Dementia
	1 Introduction
	2 What is Dementia?
	3 Language and Dementia: Findings from the Research
		3.1 Critical Linguistics and the Social Construction of Identity
	4 Observing and Interpreting Behaviors in Dementia
	5 Challenges to Our Interpretations
	6 Conclusions
	References
10 Reducing the Effects of Loneliness in the Elderly: Enacting the “Principle of Linguistic Gratuity”
	1 Introduction: What We Know About Loneliness
	2 Overview of the Health Effects from Loneliness
	3 What We Presently Know About Loneliness-Combatting Interventions
		3.1 Perspective Changing on Decreased Social Networks and Interactions
		3.2 Increasing Social Networks and Interactions
		3.3 Digital Activities as Interventions
	4 Linguistics-Inspired Activities to Combat Loneliness in Our Elderly
		4.1 Literature, Creative Writing, and Epistolary
		4.2 Music
	5 Charge to Linguists
	6 Charge to Other Researchers
	References
11 Language Nutrition in Acquisition, Learning, and Attrition
	1 Introduction
	2 Definitions: Nutrient, Language, Acquisition, Learning, and Attrition
	3 Language Learning and Stressors of Poverty
	4 Links Between First-Language Learning and Attrition
	5 A ‘Babylonian Benefit’? Attrition and Bilingualism
	6 Implications
	References
12 Learning a Lx Among Older Adults
	1 Introduction
	2 The Present Study
		2.1 Search Parameters and Procedures
		2.2 Theme Coding
	3 Results and Discussion
		3.1 Response to the Research Question
		3.2 Research from the Additive Bilingualism Context
			3.2.1 Factors Influencing Lx Learning
			3.2.2 Potential Cognitive Benefits of Lx Learning
			3.2.3 Potential Non-cognitive Benefits of Lx Learning
		3.3 Research from the Subtractive Bilingualism Context
			3.3.1 Factors Influencing Lx Learning
			3.3.2 Potential Non-Cognitive Benefits of Lx Learning
	4 Conclusion
	References
Index