A new issue of the Journal of Language and Aging Research, focusing on multilingualism and aging
A special themed issue of the Journal of Language and Aging Research (vol. 3 no. 2) has been published!
This issue focuses on the intersection of multilingualism and aging, answering the question with which issue editor Olga Ivanova subtitled her introductory editorial: What can bilingualism in aging tell us about language and communication?
It includes four research articles and a book review on the topic of the issue, plus a relevant corpus presentation and an editorial from the issue editor.
As always, we hope you find the contents useful and enlightening!
The research articles appearing in this issue are:
- Code-switching as a compensatory strategy in the discourse of Galician-Spanish bilinguals diagnosed with dementia (Ana Varela Suárez & Anastasiia Ogneva)
- Beyond language choice: Code switching and bilingual care conversations in the context of cultural diversity and dementia (Rafael Mollenhauer & Tijen Mollenhauer)
- Perceptual flexibility at an advanced age: Training seniors to perceive a nonnative voicing contrast (Sidsel Holm Rasmussen, Jonas Villumsen, Birgitte Poulsen & Ocke-Schwen Bohn)
- Comparing the impact of lifelong multilingualism and later-life language learning on cognitive and brain reserve in older adults with cognitive decline due to Alzheimer’s disease: A systematic review (Agnese Cardaio & Merel C. J. Keijzer)
The book review by Emma Machado de Souza discusses Dementia and language: The lived experience in interaction by Peter Muntigl, Charlotta Plejert & Danielle Jones, and the corpus presentation by Angelina Rubina, Olesya Kisselev, Aleksandra S. Skorobogatova, Anna Smirnova Henriques & Irina Sekerina introduces BraPoRus, the Brazilian Portuguese-Russian Corpus of older heritage Russian speakers.
