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Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 13:09:45
From: Catherine Bolly [catherine.bolly at uclouvain.be]
Subject: Language Use in Later Life

 Language Use in Later Life 
Short Title: CLARe 2015 

Date: 07-Dec-2015 - 09-Dec-2015 
Location: Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium 
Contact: Catherine Bolly 
Contact Email: clare-info at lists.fu-berlin.de 
Meeting URL: http://wikis.fu-berlin.de/display/clare/Workshop+CLARe+2015 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     French (fra)

Meeting Description: 

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, discour
 se 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:

- What are the theoretical assumptions in the different fields of linguistics?
- What are the expectations on data usable in different disciplines?
- What contributions can we expect from linguistic research to a general theory of aging: selection, optimization and compensation (Freund & Baltes 2002), individual and age-specific variation (Labov 1994), cognitive evolutions (Kemper 2015), interaction (Coupland/Coupland 1990)?
- How to make results in language and aging research transferable and useful for healthcare professionals, caregivers, relatives, and the seniors themselves?

The academic program combines programmatic keynotes, the presentation of PhD projects, Data Sessions (speech, gesture and Sign Language corpus data), and Round Tables focusing on the most urgent research desiderata and the planning of joint future research projects. 

Program:

7, 8, 9 December 2015 / University of Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve), Belgium

Day 1 / Monday 7 December 2015

12:00-13:30 Welcome (Lunch)

13:30-13:45 
Dr. C. T. Bolly/Prof. A. Gerstenberg (Univ. zu Köln/Freie Univ. Berlin) Presentation of the CLARe network 

13:45-14:00 
Prof. D. Desmette (UCLouvain)
Presentation of the Louvain4Ageing network 

14:00-15:00 
Prof. A. Wray (Cardiff Univ.)
Unaccustomed pragmatic spaces: The impact on carers when people with Alzheimer's repair their linguistic output

15:00-15:30 
Prof.s M. de Saint-Hubert/C. Swine (UCLouvain)
Frailty in Aging Health

15:30-16:00 Coffee break

16:00-16:30 
Prof. S. Agrigoroaei (UCLouvain)
Looking at cognitive aging and verbal abilities through a psychosocial lens: Empirical evidence and methodological challenges

16:30-17:30 
Dr. V. Charlot (Head of Le Bien Vieillir ASBL)
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

09:00-10:00 
Prof. B. H. Davis (Univ. of North Carolina, Charlotte)
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 (Freie Univ. Berlin)
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 (Freie Univ. Berlin)
The concept of compensation and the language in later life

14:30-15:00 
V. Hekkel (Freie Univ. Berlin)
Linguistic change and aging: How clausal constructions vary over age and time

15:00-15:30 Coffee break

15:30-16:30 Prof. C. Lindholm (Elsingfors Univ.)
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

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
Mapping the pragmatic world of old age: Pragmatic markers and pragmatic gestures in real-world interactions

10:00-10:30 
Prof. A.-M. Parisot, Dr. J. Rinfret (UQAM)
Intergenerational variation in the use of Space in Langue des signes québécoise (LSQ): The case of verb agreement marking

10:30-11:00 
G. Duboisdindien (Univ. Paris Ouest Nanterre)
Making the autobiographical discourse easier for the elderly. The use of sensory reminiscence tasks

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-12:30 
Data session 2: Video data in Spoken Language and Sign Language

12:30-13:30 Lunch break

13:30-14:30 
Prof. H. Hamilton (Georgetown Univ.)
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: General Assembly and Constitution of the Scientific Board

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