Language and aging in multilingual contexts / Kees de Bot and Sinfree Makoni.

Author/creator De Bot, Kees
Other author Makoni, Sinfree.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoClevedon ; Buffalo : Multilingual Matters Ltd.,
Descriptionvi, 162 p. ; 21 cm.
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Subjects

SeriesBilingual education and bilingualism ; 53
Contents Introduction: language, aging and multilingualism -- Language and aging, a dynamic perspective -- Language and communication with the elderly -- Language use and language skills in the healthy and pathological aging -- Resources in language and aging -- Multilingualism, aging and dementia -- Bilingual aging in older African-Americans -- The effect of age and education on narrative complexity in older Chinese in the USA / Sinfree Makoni with Hwei-Bing-Lin & Robert Schrauf -- Language in an epidemiological study: the North Manhattan aging study in New York City -- Old and new perspectives on language and aging.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
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