36.1761, Confs: 7th Conference on Corpora for Language and Aging Research (China)

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Date: 04-Jun-2025
From: Research Center for Aging, Language and Care at Tongji University [ageing at tongji.edu.cn]
Subject: 7th Conference on Corpora for Language and Aging Research


7th Conference on Corpora for Language and Aging Research
Short Title: CLARe7-2026
Theme: Negotiating Age-related Changes

Date: 13-May-2026 - 15-May-2026
Location: Shanghai, China
Meeting URL: https://ageing.tongji.edu.cn/info/1043/2681.htm

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Clinical Linguistics;
Neurolinguistics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics

Submission Deadline: 30-Sep-2025

CLARe conferences bring together scholars engaged in the study of
language and aging, with a focus on fostering interdisciplinary
collaboration. The 7th Conference on Corpora for Language and Aging
Research (CLARe7) invites submissions under the theme Negotiating
Age-related Changes. Contributions are welcome from corpus
linguistics, multimodal communication, discourse studies,
sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and applied linguistics,
including emerging AI tools. The conference seeks to advance dialogue
on how language use changes in later life and how linguistic,
cognitive, and interactional challenges related to aging are managed
across diverse communicative settings.
We welcome proposals for presentations and posters dealing with issues
related to language and aging. For CLARe7, submissions may address,
but are not limited to, the following thematic areas:
1. Corpus Linguistics and AI-enhanced Approaches to Lifespan Language
Change
Corpus-based and AI-driven approaches provide powerful tools to
examine language variation and change across the lifespan. Although
language shifts in older adults have been studied using small-scale
data, large corpora and machine learning offer new insights into
linguistic trajectories related to aging, cognitive decline, or social
positioning. This strand invites research on methodological advances,
large-scale corpus analyses, or AI-assisted modeling of age-related
language change. Emphasis is placed on ethical design,
cross-linguistic comparisons, and the visibility of older speakers in
language datasets.
2. Multimodal and Technology-mediated Communication in Aging
The increasing prominence of multimodal and digitally mediated
interaction raises important questions about how aging individuals
engage with non-verbal and technological resources. While much
research has focused on verbal decline in later life, less is known
about how gestures, gaze, prosody, and digital tools contribute to
communicative adaptation in older age. This strand invites studies
from linguistics, communication studies, Human Computer Interaction,
and aging research that explore how older adults navigate multimodal
environments, including technology-mediated platforms, and how such
practices support or constrain communicative participation in everyday
and institutional contexts.
3. Cognitive Aging, Psycholinguistics, and Compensatory Strategies
While cognitive changes in aging have been linked to alterations in
language production and comprehension, the evidence remains mixed and
inconclusive. This strand focuses on the psycholinguistic aspects of
language and aging, especially the interaction between cognitive
processing and linguistic behavior. Research is encouraged that
investigates lexical retrieval, syntactic complexity, and fluency,
along with the compensatory strategies employed by older speakers.
Contributions drawing on experimental, longitudinal, and corpus-based
approaches are welcome, particularly those that consider implications
for diagnosis, resilience, and communicative well-being.
4. Intergenerational Communication and the Construction of Age
Intergenerational communication provides a dynamic site where
linguistic interaction both reflects and shapes changing perceptions
of age. This strand explores how speakers across age groups
co-construct age-related identities by managing communicative
expectations and adapting to evolving social roles. Focus areas
include interactional patterns of alignment and divergence, the
negotiation of age-based norms in discourse, and the influence of
institutional, familial, and digital environments on the ways age is
understood and performed in everyday interaction.
5. Pragmatic Adaptation and Discourse Management in Older Adults
While much research has examined sentence-level change in aging,
discourse-level phenomena such as turn-taking, politeness, and topic
management remain under-investigated. This strand focuses on the
pragmatic skills older adults draw on to manage conversation in
everyday, institutional, and digital settings. Studies may explore how
older speakers adapt to changing communicative demands, maintain
social relationships, and cope with breakdowns or misunderstandings.
Interactional, pragmatic, and discourse-analytic approaches are
especially welcome, with a view to understanding aging not only as a
site of decline but also of adaptation and continuity.
6. Negotiating Multilingualism in Later Life
Multilingual speakers navigate age-related changes through shifting
language practices, proficiencies, and identities over time. This
strand examines how language use, dominance, and repertoire evolve in
bilingual and multilingual contexts as individuals age, with
particular attention to the communicative roles and strategies of
older multilingual speakers in familial, community, and transnational
settings. Topics include trajectories of language maintenance and
attrition, cross-generational transmission, code-switching, and
pragmatic adaptation in later life, alongside the sociocultural,
migratory, and institutional factors that shape multilingual
experiences across the lifespan.
Submission Guidelines:
The working language of the conference is English. Abstracts should be
submitted anonymously with a maximum of 500 English words (not
including references). A second page may be used to present relevant
figures and tables. The abstract should clearly state how the paper
will contribute to the themes of the conference. It should also
provide a clear statement of the aims of the research, including the
research question(s), some details about the methods used, and an
overview of the results.
Abstracts should be submitted via EasyChair by the deadline.
Submission Page:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=clare7
Important Dates:
· Deadline for abstract submission: September 30, 2025 (by 12:00 PM,
Beijing Time)
· Notification of acceptance: 1 November, 2025
· Conference dates: 13-15 May, 2026
Venue:
Tongji University, No. 1239 Siping Road, Shanghai, China (The
conference will be held in hybrid format: onsite and online.)
Contact Information:
For inquiries, further information will be available on the conference
website:
https://ageing.tongji.edu.cn/info/1043/2681.htm
(More information coming soon.)
Conference contact email address:
ageing at tongji.edu.cn
Organizing Committee:
Prof. Dr. Lihe Huang, Tongji University, China
Prof. Dr. Annette Gerstenberg, University of Potsdam, Germany
Prof. Dr. David Bowie, University of Alaska, USA



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