1839469706     

Vicentini, Alessandra [Mitwirkende/Mitwirkender] ; Ylänne, Virpi [Mitwirkende/Mitwirkender]

1st ed.

Bern : Peter Lang AG International Academic Publishers, 2023 [©2023]

1 online resource (282 pages)

Englisch

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This volume deals with ageing and ageism mostly from an applied linguistic perspective, especially (critical) discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, translation studies and from the legal point of view. It highlights the close connection between ages, language and technologies at a global level.

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Cover -- Series Information -- Copyright Information -- Table of Contents -- Discourses of Ages: Representations and Reflections (Virpi Ylänne, Kim Grego, Alessandra Vicentini) -- Section 1 General Overview on Ageism -- Stereotypes of Ageing in Intergenerational Talk and in Media Representations (Virpi Ylänne) -- Images of Age in Contemporary Birthday Cards (Judith M. Lejeck) -- Section 2 Young Age -- Age and Ageism in Greta Thunberg's Climate Activism (Maria Cristina Paganoni) -- Section 3 Age and the Female Gender -- Addressing Women and Ebola in Specialized Discourse: A Corpus-Based Study (Francesca Cappellini) -- Discursive (De/Re)constructions of Identity and the Age/Gender Interface: From Geriatric Pregnancies to Midlife Motherhood (Paola Catenaccio) -- Section 4 Middle Age -- Representations of Middle Age. A Corpus Linguistic Study of The New York Times's Letters to the Editor (1990-2019) (Giulia Rovelli) -- Section 5 Old Age and Technology -- Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) for Communications with Seniors and Non-Hearing Users at Public Spaces: Speech-To-Text Technology for Live Subtitling and Accessibility (Alessandro Gregori) -- Inspecting Linguistic Features in Interaction Transcripts of Patients with Alzheimer's Disease through Interpretable Machine Learning (Barbara Berti) -- Section 6 Old Age, Disease and Care -- 'Home-Likeness' in English and Italian Care Homes' Websites: From Countering Stereotypes to Wading through the COVID-19 Pandemic (Carlotta Fiammenghi) -- Dignity and Independence of Older Adults in the Healthcare Decision-Making Process: Insights from the Italian Legal Framework (Federico Gustavo Pizzetti) -- Series Index.