TY  - JOUR
A1  - Gerstenberg, Annette
A1  - Lindholm, Camilla
T1  - Language and aging research
BT  - new insights and perspectives
JF  - Linguistics vanguard
N2  - Our introduction to the special collection gives an overview of the research projects which were originally presented at the third CLARe network conference. We group the research under four cross-sectional topics that unite the different contributions: the data used in the research, the theoretical frameworks, the languages and varieties which are represented and the situational contexts which are examined. These projects represent the current state of research in this field and allows the reader to orient themselves within this diverse field but also leaves many questions open and provides impetus for future lines of research. The interaction and collaboration between diverse disciplines is the central aspect which unites all contributions to the special collection.
KW  - language and aging
KW  - lifespan
KW  - health communication
KW  - language change
KW  - interactional linguistics
KW  - conversation analysis
KW  - corpus linguistics
KW  - psycholinguistics
KW  - sociolinguistics
KW  - computational linguistics
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2019-0025
SN  - 2199-174X
VL  - 5
IS  - s2
PB  - De Gruyter
CY  - Berlin
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Gerstenberg, Annette
T1  - Generational styles in oral storytelling
BT  - What can be learned from narrative priming?
JF  - Narrative inquiry
N2  - When it comes to autobiographical narratives, the most spontaneous and natural manner is preferable. But neither individually told narratives nor those grounded in the communicative repertoire of a social group are easily comparable. A clearly identifiable tertium comparationis is mandatory. We present the results of an experimental ‘Narrative Priming’ setting with French students. A potentially underlying model of narrating from personal experience was activated via a narrative prime, and in a second step, the participants were asked to tell a narrative of their own. The analysis focuses on similarities and differences between the primes and the students’ narratives. The results give evidence for the possibility to elicit a set of comparable narratives via a prime, and to activate an underlying narrative template. Meaningful differences are discussed as generational and age related styles. The transcriptions from the participants that authorized the publication are available online.
KW  - generational styles
KW  - priming
KW  - sociolinguistics
KW  - experimental
KW  - positioning
KW  - narrative templates
KW  - French
KW  - doing storytelling
KW  - narratives from personal experience
KW  - spoken language
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.18042.ger
SN  - 1387-6740
VL  - 29
IS  - 1
SP  - 1
EP  - 28
PB  - John Benjamins Publishing Co.
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Peters, Arne
A1  - Coetzee-Van Rooy, Susan
T1  - Exploring the interplay of language and body in South African youth
BT  - a portrait-corpus study
JF  - Cognitive linguistics : an interdisciplinary journal of cognitive science
N2  - Elicitation materials like language portraits are useful to investigate people's perceptions about the languages that they know. This study uses portraits to analyse the underlying conceptualisations people exhibit when reflecting on their language repertoires. Conceptualisations as manifestations of cultural cognition are the purview of cognitive sociolinguistics. The present study advances portrait methodology as it analyses data from structured language portraits of 105 South African youth as a linguistic corpus from both qualitative and quantitative perspectives. The approach enables the uncovering of (a) prominent underlying conceptualisations of African language(s) and the body, and (b) the differences and similarities of these conceptualisations vis-a-vis previous cognitive (socio) linguistic studies of embodied language experiences. In our analysis, African home languages emerged both as 'languages of the heart' linked to cultural identity and as 'languages of the head' linked to cognitive strength and control. Moreover, the notion of 'degrees of proficiency' or 'magnitude' of language knowledge emerged more prominently than in previous studies of embodied language experience.
KW  - language portraits
KW  - embodiment
KW  - corpus linguistics
KW  - cognitive
KW  - sociolinguistics
KW  - cultural conceptualisations
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2019-0101
SN  - 0936-5907
SN  - 1613-3641
SN  - 1861-048X
VL  - 31
IS  - 4
SP  - 579
EP  - 608
PB  - Mouton de Gruyter
CY  - Berlin
ER  -